topic Difficulty with appearances applied to Direct Modeled parts in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Difficulty with appearances applied to Direct Modeled parts

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 03:00:32 GMT

I'm converting some components into Direct Modeled parts to reduce the number of joints used.

This seemed to be going fine until I started applying appearances:

Many of the faces wont accept an appearance unless it is applied to the entire body.
Performing a "compute all" will revert back to the base material appearance.
Changing the base material reverts back to the original base material after a compute all.

I've attached a simple hub as an example.

Am I doing something wrong? Appearances / base materials were super easy with timeline modeled parts.

Thanks,

Nathan

Re: Difficulty with appearances applied to Direct Modeled parts

jhackney1972 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 03:48:40 GMT

Your answer is to go into editing the base feature by right-clicking on the Base Feature in the timeline and choose "Edit" from the menu. Then select each face in turn and apply an appearance. Make sure you close the Appearance dialog box, select another face, then right-click to bring up the Appearances dialog box again. Take a look at the screencast.

Re: Difficulty with appearances applied to Direct Modeled parts

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 04:10:20 GMT

Wow, that was a simple fix. Thank you!