topic Re: Multicolor stock in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Multicolor stock

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:52:13 GMT

Hei

Is there any wapy of making a custom stock in Fusion 360 that is made up of multiple colors? I will give you this as an example https://www.cwp-usa.com/collections/spectraply-panel-10x35/products/spectraply-panels-confetti

I want to be able to see how will the product look like in CAM after the manufacturing process.

I appreciate any help

Re: Multicolor stock

wmhazzard — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 03:28:21 GMT

You can with a custom appearance. Watch this Lars video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvLE9mdi9k

Re: Multicolor stock

laughingcreek — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 04:48:48 GMT

You've probably figured out by now that monkeying with the appearances won't get you the layered plywood effect. There is an appearance called wood(solid) that gives a 3d solid wood effect which is the right idea. It's a 3d appearance, so you get endgrain etc. you need the same type thing but with layers instead of concentric circles. Seems that it would be possible for AD to create, but I haven't seen a way for the user to do it. (maybe someone who messes with the API can, Idk)

you can fake it by layering up bodies. it's a little tricky to get the order of operations right so it will work. each layer ends up being a seperate body, so a little unwieldy. see attached example model-