topic Favorite materials folder not synced in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Favorite materials folder not synced

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 15:04:25 GMT

Hi guys

I use A360 most often on my laptop, but sometimes on a more powerful desktop computer for rendering.

One issue that I have is that the "Favorites" library in the appearance settings seems to be saved locally on whichever computer I use and not on my account.

Ideally I'd define a custom material on either machine and be able to easily find it in my favorite folder from anywhere.

I feel like a this universality of account settings would a be logical consequence of the awesome cloud-based structure that A360 has (or maybe I'm just being stupid and missing something obvious).

Does anyone else have experience with this kind of inconvinience or maybe a solution?

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Bud_Schroeder_ADESK — Mon, 02 May 2016 15:08:43 GMT

Hi David,

Are you talking about the Rendering service? If so, let me know and I'll move your post to the rendering forum.

Thanks for getting us more details.

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 18:58:45 GMT

Hi Bud,

I'm not entirely sure, the appearance menu can also be accessed during modeling and other parts of Fusion, altough it's use is predominantly during rendering.

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Bud_Schroeder_ADESK — Thu, 05 May 2016 14:00:03 GMT

Thanks David for the updates. We will move your thread to the Fusion forum so that the right people can jump in and help you out.

Thanks again for all the updates.

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

colin.smith — Thu, 05 May 2016 15:06:24 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

You are not crazy, currently the favourites folder doesn't follow you from machine to machine like it should.

That will be fixed in the May release.

Colin

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2016 19:32:47 GMT

Thanks Colin, that's good to hear!

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:36:34 GMT

Why just the Favorites folder? Why not any custom materials?
I have the same issue, only I use Simulation - set up on my laptop, run analysis on desktop.

Glad to see it will be addressed in the May release (tonight ... ?) But it would be nice to include all custom materials, not just favorites.

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

colin.smith — Mon, 09 May 2016 18:09:13 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

As it is in the current workflow - you add customized materials to your favourites folder. Today the favourites folder is only held locally.

There is a redesign being worked on so that there will be a custom folder that will be synchronized to the cloud. You will be able to mark "favourite" materials in that folder for easy retrieval.

We are working under the assumption that not all altered materials are worth keeping. In the future we want to provide funtionality to allow you to make a custom set of materials that could be shared out to a project for others to use.

Hope that helps.

Colin

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:34:30 GMT

Is there a way to share the Favorite materials list or the materials in it? I also have a custom list that I need to use on 2 other computers.

Re: Favorite materials folder not synced

Brady_Fulton — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:06:58 GMT

dcation: Favorites aren't synced between computers but "My Appearance" tab is.

Here's a screenshot of how to add appearances: