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alias: user-guide-clone-material
description: "Clone Material creates a new material with identical characteristics from an existing one"
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# Clone Material

:lock: Material.**Clone**

## Overview

This operation is used to Clone an existing **Material** into a new **Material** with a different name and identical characteristics.  

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* The **Material** exists in the system.

## Sequence of Steps

The Clone Material wizard can be called from the **Material** page within the Business Data Group. The default values will be taken from the current **Material** to be used as a base for the new object.

### Step 1: General Data

1. On the left side panel, add as many rows as desired (each row represents a new  **Material** to be created based on the currently selected **Material**) by selecting :material-plus: and specifying the property values for each new instance to be created. You can also provide a name for each of the new instances, however if a **Name Generator** is configured for the Entity Type, you can leave the field blank and a new name will be automatically generated.
2. Optionally, enter a comment for the operation.
3. Select **Clone** to complete the operation and a new object will be created.

!!! info
    For more information on these and other features of cloning, see [[user-guide-clone]].

![Screenshot showing a UI with a filename "clone material" and a button labeled "Clone".](images/clone_material.png)