Best place to store a material library

[merrittjacob]

I have a downloaded material library for 3D printed plastics. It is a *.adsklib file. Where shall I place/store  the library so that it will always be available for use?

Thanks.

 Merritt

[kellings]

I believe you are going to want to put that in the assets folder under the CAMPrintSettings folder. 

Let me know if that works for you. otherwise I'l track this down and let you know. 

Kevin

[merrittjacob]

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[merrittjacob]

Kevin,

Thanks for the quick reply. You'll have to forgive my limited knowledge of Fusion 360 directory structure. I can't find that folder. Can you please provide a more detailed path? I am starting from Drive C:  on a Windows 10 OS PC.

Merritt

[kellings]

Hi @merrittjacob I'm looking into this one now. What I told you only appears if cloud libraries are enabled. That location I gave is a Fusion cloud directory, not a local directory. Let me see where else these can be stored. I'll be back shortly with an answer. 

Kevin

[kellings]

Hi @merrittjacob I'm hoping you can help me with some more info. I've just had a meeting with a member of the additive team and they believe there may be some confusion. Were you hoping to use the file you downloaded for printing settings or were you looking to use that file to show appearance and physical characteristics of the print material?

Can you tell me where you downloaded the file from? 

Thanks,

Kevin

[merrittjacob]

I down loaded it from GitHub. I am not using it for print settings but rather for material properties. I would be helpful for many people if you Fusion had a material library for 3d printing filaments, PLA, Nylon, etc.

[merrittjacob]

I down loaded it from GitHub. I am not using it for print settings but rather for material properties. It would be helpful for many people if Fusion had a material libraries for 3d printing filaments, PLA, Nylon, etc.

[kellings]

OK thank you @merrittjacob for the info. Side note, there are print settings for different materials like PLA etc. available in Fusion. 

Here is how you can use that library you downloaded in Fusion. 

From the Modify Menu select Manage Materials

Then Click this icon and Choose Open Library and browse to your library to open that file. 

If this is what you are looking for, please mark this answer as the solution. If not, let me know what didn't go right. 

Thanks,

Kevin

[merrittjacob]

Thanks again for looking into this.

I was always able to access the library, but I wasn't sure if there was a place in the Fusion 360 local directory structure where it was meant to be stored.  When I create new materials in the library by duplicating an existing material in my "Favorites", and then changing it as needed, the newly created material is always available. It seems that this library (the one I downloaded) will only be available on my local machine. I was hoping there was a way to import the library in to my favorites or into the materials database as standalone library.