topic Re: How to identify a component’s material? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to identify a component’s material?

karl — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 06:19:30 GMT

I use a number of materials in my project, and they’re all displayed in the materials window. There are enough of them, however (particularly ones that are similar), that it’s not obvious which one is used in which component. There must be a simple way to tell, and I’m probably looking right at it, but I can’t figure out how. Any tips?

Re: How to identify a component’s material?

davebYYPCU — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 06:27:02 GMT

Right click the component, select Properties.

Might help....

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g-andresen — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:32:46 GMT

Hi,

if a component contains different materials, it looks like this

günther

Re: How to identify a component’s material?

karl — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 18:53:22 GMT

The material is identified as "ABS Plastic" in Properties,

and that's what's shown as being in the design in the Physical Design dialog.

If I look at the Appearance dialog, however, there are several materials identified as "ABS (white)" (I can only display one label at a time in a screenshot) since I've played around with the color.

How can I determine which one is currently in the model?

Re: How to identify a component’s material?

jhackney1972 — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:22:44 GMT

Since user assigned Appearances can override assigned Material Appearances, really the only way to find out which components have custom appearances applied is to right click on the Appearance, you want to know, in the Appearance dialog box and right click and choose "Select Objects Applied To" and look for the underlined highlighting of the component in the Browser. See Screencast below.

Re: How to identify a component’s material?

karl — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:43:49 GMT

Got it. Thanks!