Pure titanium, soft enough to bend, light as aluminum, strong as steel, biocompatible for implants, untouched by seawater. The metal of high-end eyewear, dental implants, marine hardware, and the surface skin of the SR-71 Blackbird. Expensive, slow to machine, burns in pure oxygen.
Unalloyed titanium, ~99.2% Ti, with controlled levels of Fe, O, C, N. Yield 275 MPa, modulus 105 GPa. Excellent corrosion resistance — particularly in chloride environments where stainless pits. Machining and welding require inert atmosphere and slow speeds; chips can ignite. Standard for chemical-process equipment, marine hardware, biomedical components.
Principled BSDF defaults derived from the sphere metallic finish. Reasonable seed for Blender, Substance, Keyshot, Rhino — tune per material. Or grab the whole library at once: ForMaterials library →
# finish: metallic albedo #b8b8b0 metallic 1.00 roughness 0.25 ior 1.45 transmission 0.00 clearcoat 0.00 sheen 0.00 anisotropic 0.00
{
"albedo": "#b8b8b0",
"metallic": 1.0,
"roughness": 0.25,
"ior": 1.45,
"transmission": 0.0,
"clearcoat": 0.0,
"sheen": 0.0,
"anisotropic": 0.0
}
# Blender 4.x — Principled BSDF
# Titanium Grade 2 (Commercially Pure) · finish: metallic
import bpy
mat = bpy.data.materials.new(name="mat_titanium_grade2")
mat.use_nodes = True
bsdf = mat.node_tree.nodes["Principled BSDF"]
bsdf.inputs["Base Color"].default_value = (0.4793, 0.4793, 0.4342, 1.0)
bsdf.inputs["Metallic"].default_value = 1.000
bsdf.inputs["Roughness"].default_value = 0.250
bsdf.inputs["IOR"].default_value = 1.450
bsdf.inputs["Transmission Weight"].default_value = 0.000
bsdf.inputs["Coat Weight"].default_value = 0.000
bsdf.inputs["Sheen Weight"].default_value = 0.000
bsdf.inputs["Anisotropic"].default_value = 0.000
# KeyShot 11+ — lux Python API, Generic material
# Titanium Grade 2 (Commercially Pure) · finish: metallic
# Run from Window → Scripting Console
import lux
mat = lux.createMaterial(name="mat_titanium_grade2", materialType="Generic")
mat.setProperty("diffuse", (184, 184, 176)) # 8-bit sRGB
mat.setProperty("metallic", 1.000)
mat.setProperty("roughness", 0.250)
mat.setProperty("indexOfRefraction", 1.450)
mat.setProperty("transparency", 0.000)
mat.setProperty("coatingWeight", 0.000)
{
"_format": "Substance Designer / Painter \u2014 pbrMetalRough constants",
"_about": "Titanium Grade 2 (Commercially Pure) \u00b7 finish: metallic",
"baseColor": {
"r": 0.4793,
"g": 0.4793,
"b": 0.4342
},
"metallic": 1.0,
"roughness": 0.25,
"ior": 1.45,
"opacity": 1.0,
"anisotropyLevel": 0.0,
"_notes": "Channels listed are the standard Substance pbrMetalRough output. Drop into a Uniform Color node per channel, or as the constant input on a layered stack."
}{
"asset": {
"version": "2.0",
"generator": "ForMatter"
},
"materials": [
{
"name": "mat_titanium_grade2",
"pbrMetallicRoughness": {
"baseColorFactor": [
0.4793,
0.4793,
0.4342,
1.0
],
"metallicFactor": 1.0,
"roughnessFactor": 0.25
},
"extensions": {
"KHR_materials_ior": {
"ior": 1.45
}
}
}
]
}# USD Preview Surface — UsdShade.MaterialLook prim attributes
# Titanium Grade 2 (Commercially Pure) · finish: metallic
def Material "mat_titanium_grade2" {
token outputs:surface.connect = </mat_titanium_grade2/PreviewSurface.outputs:surface>
def Shader "PreviewSurface" {
uniform token info:id = "UsdPreviewSurface"
color3f inputs:diffuseColor = (0.4793, 0.4793, 0.4342)
float inputs:metallic = 1.000
float inputs:roughness = 0.250
float inputs:ior = 1.450
float inputs:opacity = 1.000
float inputs:clearcoat = 0.000
token outputs:surface
}
}
Commercially pure titanium — softer than the alloyed grades but still heat-sensitive at the cut. Possible on the MR-1 at conservative feeds; ShopBot will struggle. Workable for jewelry-scale cuts; production-scale CNC happens on dedicated rigid mills.
Machinery's Handbook 30th ed., 'Titanium Machining' (CP grade 2); Sandvik titanium-machining guide; Pat Pruitt's bench practice as canonical applied example for student-scale titanium CNC (per pat_pruitt_canonical memory).
→ try this material in swarfASM Handbook Vol. 2: Titanium and Titanium Alloys; ASTM B265 grade-2 datasheet.
Fabricated and cold-connected stainless steel, niobium, titanium, plated base metal. Accession 1999.11A-C. Threaded-rod cold connections instead of solder; titanium contributes one of the three industrial-metal palettes the brooch reads against.
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Conway's Material World on raw materials, Lefteri's Making It on processes, Forty's Concrete and Culture, Sparke's Design in Context, Bürdek's Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design, Schröpfer's Material Design on materials in architecture, Winchester's The Perfectionists on tolerance, Minshall's Your Life Is Manufactured on the global supply chain, von Busch's Making Trouble on material activism, Were's How Materials Matter, Hegger / Drexler / Zeumer's Basics Materials, Untracht and McCreight on metalsmithing, USDA Forest Products Lab on woods, GIA on gemstones, Schott / CoorsTek / Toray / Owens Corning datasheets, MakeItFrom for verifiable property numbers, ASM Handbook, ISO standards. Museum holdings draw from the Met, MAD, V&A, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Newark Museum of Art, British Museum, Heard Museum, Smithsonian NMAI, Eiteljorg Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, and Grand Rapids Art Museum — collection-record permalinks only, designer overview pages and exhibition listings excluded. Voice blocks now ride on every entry kind — material, process, application, and finish — and include Ruskin on iron, Anni Albers on twining, Greg Lynn on the shred-and-teeth NURBS lineage, Pugin on the metal that won't be hammered, Barthes / Yanagi / Benjamin channeled within their philosophy; Sparke, Bürdek, Forty, Conway, Schröpfer, Minshall, von Busch, Lefteri, Pat Pruitt, Mary Lee Hu, Tom Joyce, Albert Paley, and the rest of the contemporary makers quoted verbatim with citation. All cited.
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