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Material Workbench

Wire simulations as a graph: materials, environments and geometries feed solvers; solver spectra feed derived quantities. Double-click the canvas to add nodes, drag between ports to wire, select a node to inspect it. v1 · node editor · hidden preview

Examples
Quick guide — how to drive the graph
  • Add a node: double-click empty canvas and pick a type (or right-click → Add Node).
  • Wire: drag from an output port to an input port. Sockets are typed — a material wire only fits a material input.
  • Inspect: click any node; the full-size chart appears in the Inspector below the canvas.
  • Edit values: drag horizontally on a number widget; click a combo to choose.
  • Remove: select a node and press Delete. Drag the title bar to move it.
  • Save: Share graph copies a URL that restores nodes, wires and values exactly.
  • Try this: the ΔT output of Photothermal is a spectrum too — wire it into Peak analysis to measure the width of the thermal resonance (that is what the Thermal chain example does).
  • Fit an experiment: add a Fit to data (Mie) node, wire material + environment, load your measured (λ, extinction) CSV — it fits radius and amplitude and shows data, fit and residuals in the Inspector.

Inspector

select a node