topic Re: Custom Materials not saving. in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Custom Materials not saving.

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:10:00 GMT

Seems there is a glitch with adding custom materials to the material manager for stress/pressure simulation.

Trying to add Sapphire Crystal but no luck. Any help please. Thank you.

Alldaron

Re: Custom Materials not saving.

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:13:48 GMT

screen cast of the issue

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/171fa841-5e4e-4321-a0bd-ee80444c591c

Re: Custom Materials not saving.

Sophia9911 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:28:14 GMT

Hi SwissPL,

Thanks for your message.

From the video, It seems you was trying to find ‘Crystal’ assets in Physical asset browser, but failed. This is the misunderstanding of two concepts: Container and Assets.

Protein describes physical material to be a container, it can contain different aspects like appearance assets, physical assets… .(see the bottom of the snapshot below)

On the left side of Material browser, the favorites library list materials ‘Crystal’, ‘Default New Material’ and ‘Titanium 6AI-4V’.

Crystal and Default New Material only includes Identity, but no assets.

Titanium 6AI-4V includes Identity and ‘Titanium Alloy 6AI-4V’ physical assets.

As a result, On the right side, when user browses physical assets by adding Physical, it will only filter out physical assets for him, you can see:

In Favorites of Asset Browser(different from Favorites of Material Browser), the physical asset ‘Titanium Alloy 6AI-4V’ for material ‘Titanium 6AI-4V’ is list, and can be searched out. this Favorites would not list material name(container name like Crystal).

Re: Custom Materials not saving.

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:00:58 GMT

I was trying to add a material which doesn't presently exist to the available set. I need to test sapphire crystal glass in the watch component.

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Re: Custom Materials not saving.

Sophia9911 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:42:43 GMT

So you are trying to create a material in sapphire crystal glass?

you can add new appearance asset into the customize material steps like:

Select an appearance asset from Fusion 360 Appearance library > Change properties like color, Index of Refraction, change material preview render as RRT, then you can create "a sapphire crystal glass material" by yourself, hope it helps.