The Materials () branch under Global Definitions enables you to add materials at the global level. You can add materials in the same way as you do under a Component branch, but materials on the global level are available throughout the model and therefore have no Geometric Entity Selection section. You can refer to global materials using a Material Link node under the Materials branch in a component. Using global materials can be useful if you want to use the same materials in several components within a model.

This section provides an overview of the materials added under the global Materials node. To access global materials in a model component, use a Material Link.

The Material column lists the current materials using the materials’ node labels from the model tree according to the settings defined in Displaying Node Names, Tags, and Types in the Model Builder.

The Selection column for global materials always shows Global to indicate the global scope for the materials defined here.