Find materials with similar properties as a reference material.

Use when the user wants alternatives to a specific material (e.g. 'what can replace SS304?', 'cheaper alternative to titanium'). Returns materials ranked by similarity score. Match criteria include strength, density, cost_tier, process_compat, thermal, corrosion.

post/tools/find_equivalent_materials

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.mechanofab.com/v1
  • URL: https://api.mechanofab.com/v1/tools/find_equivalent_materials
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

material_idstring required
match_criteriastring[] required
max_resultsnumber

Response

Tool result

source_materialobject required
source_tagstring required

Changes

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