Physical Material is not showing correctly

[Anonymous]

I'm new to Fusion 360 (and CAD/3D modeling) and just started out learning Fusion 360 following one of the YouTube videos.

I'm stuck at a stupid issue: the Physical Material is set to "Birch", but the model is rendered in an brown-greyish colour. 

Looking at the Physical Material library, there are a lot of materials with a "grey" preview and a few with actual colour (in the screenshot Ash and Birch are grey, while Cherry is coloured). Selecting a coloured material makes the component render with this material.

Is this because I'm using the Startup License? Or is the Physical Material library corrupted somehow?

- Niels

[robduarte]

What's the "Appearance" for that body? Physical Materials are for describing the physical characteristics of the object based on a material. Bodies also have an Appearance, which determines how it looks on screen. Normally when you select a Physical Material, there is a default Appearance that goes with it. But try using the Appearance command and explicitly selecting one.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. However, this doesn't seem to be the cause of the problem.

If I select e.g. "Pine" as Physical Material, the model is rendered correctly. So it looks like there is a problem with the material database where it seems to be missing information to display the affected materials.

Or is this a limitation for the Startup License?

[robduarte]

It shouldn't be. I wonder if reinstalling fusion 360 would also reinstall the materials library. Might be the easiest thing to try.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you File>Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here?

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry for the slow response. Here is the requested file.

- Niels

[TheCADWhisperer]

Hmmm, I just looked and I do not see an Birch in the Fusion Appearance Library.

I think you will have to create your own.

Fusion Appearances

I have not figured out how to get access to the Autodesk Appearance Library from within Fusion.

Autodesk Appearance Library