topic Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:52:53 GMT

Any option for simulating stress/strain on carbon fiber? I don't see it as a physical material. Of course, my first real need for simulation in Fusion 360 would have to be an exotic material.

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:58:21 GMT

In the Autodesk Material Library there is an entry for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic. Not clear if that is based on the cloth type or oriented fibers.. But keep in mind that like wood, the strength of carbon fiber is dependent on direction and I don't think the linear stress SIM can currently account for that.

Niels

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 02:17:18 GMT

@Anonymous, how did you get that asset browser window? Are you in Fusion 360?

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:15:10 GMT

Yes, but somewhere quite deep down.

In SIM, go to the ribbon toolbar > Setup > Materials > Manage Physical Materials

Then Add a new material

Add a physical parameters tab

This will pop open the Asset Library where you will find the Autodesk material library. Search for the material you want, and click the little arrows button the right hand side to add these properties to the material you are creating.

It will then populate the thermal, mechanical, and strength fields.

Then in your SIM go to Setup > Materials > Material Override, and pick the material you created from the dropdown for those components you want to apply it to

I think improvements should be made to make these libraries more accessible and intuitive.. but it functions as a workaround for now..

Niels

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 01:56:30 GMT

@Anonymous, Wow! Thanks for pointing that out. This works and gets me going. I agree though, it would be nice to see this process simplified.

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:22:02 GMT

Paul, thanks for posting your Carbon fiber questions.
We are interested in how people are using Fusion 360 for simulations and improving their design for manufacturability DFM for advanced Carbon fiber applications.

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:26:25 GMT

good explanation of a weird way of displaying materials.

shame that all material libraries are locked, Im paying and i would like to use all functions, what can i do to unlock the autodesk material library and specifically carbon fiber settings??

Thanks

Re: SIM - Carbon Fiber

TheCADWhisperer — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:51:44 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
...shame that all material libraries are locked,
...what can i do to unlock the autodesk material library

What are you seeing as "locked"?

You should be able to create a custom library.