{"id":63,"date":"2008-04-30T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2010-03-09T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T05:36:58","slug":"ctophers-solidworks-material-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"ctopher&#8217;s SolidWorks Material Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*New database is now available.\u00a0 Links in this post have been updated.\u00a0 See new post <\/span><a title=\"Current Posting for new materials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=92\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">new<\/span> <\/strong><a title=\"Location for current version\" href=\"http:\/\/sw.fcsuper.com\/index.php?name=UpDownload&amp;req=viewdownloaddetails&amp;lid=111\"><strong>ctopher&#8217;s Material Database<\/strong><\/a> (offsite link)<strong> is here!<\/strong> The long anticipated update of my material database.<\/p>\n<p>The new database version <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">041008<\/span> has been updated with more materials.<\/p>\n<p>Because of conflicts with some of the materials between SolidWorks 2008 and older versions, we created two versions. One version is for <em><strong>2007 and older<\/strong> and<\/em> the other is for<strong> <em>2008 and newer<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em> Both are included in the same file.<\/p>\n<p>Also added is a text file with instructions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you<\/em> to Matt and others for your help and contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Chris (ctopher)<\/p>\n<p>Download page:\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Current page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?attachment_id=93\"><strong>ctopher&#8217;s Material Database<\/strong><\/a> (onsite link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*New database is now available.\u00a0 Links in this post have been updated.\u00a0 See new post here.* The new ctopher&#8217;s Material Database (offsite link) is here! The long anticipated update of my material database. The new database version 041008 has been updated with more materials. 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