Display states?

[Anonymous]

In Solidworks you can create configurations and display states. Both are really powerful features which I can’t seem to find in Fusion?

I’m working on a pair of glasses and I’d like to show different material combinations. (ie. white and aluminium, black and grey, red and white etc). Is there a way of saving those material combinations so you can easily cycle between them? I need to render all the options together in 1 render. Being able to place 5 down and choose which colour combination each would be, would save a lot of time. 

Is this feature available? 

Kind regards

Alex

[prainsberry]

Hello Alex,

So kind of amazing timing.  There  isn't really a way to do this natively.  I actually put a couple things together this weekend using the API that might be useful for you here.  I don't think it will get you exactly what you were thinking but it might be close.  This plugin will let you apply a bunch of appearances and then save a "view."  You can then apply different appearances and save another view.   To put five in the same assembly you may have to make  independent copies of them to use this add-in just because of the way i did it.  Alternatively you could just make all 5 copies and set each one up independently. You can download it here:

https://github.com/tapnair/FusionDisplayer

In Fusion you can apply appearance overrides on parts in an assembly, the component itself, bodies and faces.  Sometimes this can get a little confusing.  I also put together a tool that helps understand exactly what appearances are applied to what:

https://github.com/tapnair/AppearanceUtility

Finally if you are really looking for configurations of model dimensions or similar I have one more for you.  This one allows you to setup different dimension sets and properties.  But it doesn't handle appearances:

https://github.com/tapnair/FusionSheeter

All that said, writing these utilities is just a bit of a hobby for me so please use them accordingly and set the right expectations for quality and completeness.  I'm always looking for feedback on how I could make them better though!  Let me know if this works out for you.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. It would be good if there was a native solution like there is with Solidworks but this looks close.