The material manager is a dialog for dealing with the specification and editing of material properties stored in a global database accessible to the geometry editor of any project.
The manager is accessible from the main GUI window, and also from the geometry editor. When building models the components can be formed of any material existing in the database.
The manager dialog lists the materials currently in the database and shows the properties of the selected material.
Two types of properties are accessible from the manager, they are the physical properties of the materials (conductivity, permittivity etc) and also the graphical properties used to represent the material in the geometry editor (lighting colour components).