topic Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Are properties no longer available for personal users?

lemelman — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:59:13 GMT

The charity for which I do voluntary work can nolonger afford a full licence, so I have to use the personal (free) version. I tried asigning a physical material to a part I've designed but cannot change it from the dafault of 'steel'.

Have I missed something or am I doing something wrong? It always used to work.

Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users?

TimelesslyTiredYouth — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:37:08 GMT

Hi @lemelman

Could you export your file to the forum so we can see if we can replicate the issue,

File -> export -> F3D -> Upload here

Ricky

Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users?

jhackney1972 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:45:05 GMT

I see no issues changing material using the Fusion Personal License. The only thing I can think of is to make sure that you have some different materials to change to. Animated GIF will show me changing material.

Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users?

jeff_strater — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:18:42 GMT

Are you trying to assign a physical material to an external component in the Assembly environment? Physical material is a design property (as opposed to Appearance, which can be overridden in another design). If so, you will have to open the referenced component and change physical material there

Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users?

lemelman — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:46:43 GMT

Here's my file, and a video.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Are properties no longer available for personal users?

lemelman — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:07:11 GMT

I discovered that I was doing it completely wrong, and have now fixed it. Thank you for confirming that it actually does work and that encouraged me to investigate further.

I tried posting earlier to include my f3d and a short video, but simply got a message saying the video is being processed and to try again later. Many minutes later its still not finished processing.