Appearance dissapears when going from sculpt/form to model/design

[Anonymous]

Hi,

So i am trying to add an appearance to the rim and inside of a wheel in order to differentiate it from the tyre. In the model space this wasnt working, I was only able to apply the appearance to the whole body, so i tried splitting the face, this worked however it also applied the appearance to the outside of the wheel for some reason??

After this I went back into sculpt/form (where i could select the desired faces) and applied the appearance to the faces, happy with the result i went back into model to find it was gone.

I dont see why Fusion would allow you to use the appearance feature in the sculpt mode if you couldnt retain it afterwards? Is this a bug?

I have attached two photos, one showing the wheel in the form mode with the desired appearance applied to the faces i wanted, the other showing how you can only select the entire body in 'design' mode.

Any help appreciated.

[ryan.bales · Accepted solution]

The simplest answer is that the body is transformed into solid/patch bodies and the appearances are subsequently lost. I do not know the intent of doing it this way or the reasoning behind why it allows you to apply them. 

Now this is where it gets a bit tricky. They DO remain on when the body is uniformly transformed OR the appearances are set at a per body/component level rather than face level. Which might be what you are facing.

Since i don't have your model i cannot be 100% sure of where the breaks are and should be to prove out what i know. But i do know that the best thing to do if applying them in a form - apply them per body and make your body splits where the material changes(in all reality this is how most things that are not multi-color or plastics/synthetics would be)

[Anonymous]

Cheers for the reply Ryan,

I see what you're saying it just means I'll have to do a few more steps to differentiate the faces into bodies. This is what I tried originally in the 'surface' area however it left me with a strange outcome, it applied the appearance to both the outside of the wheel as well as the intended inside. I did this by extruding a circle into the wheel, trimming and splitting the body. How would you go about achieving a similar thing in the 'form' area?

Do you think submitting this as an idea would be worthwhile? - the ability to carry appearances over from the 'form' workspace to the 'design' workspace.

[Anonymous]

Ok, maybe the appearance on the outer of the wheel was the bug........ just started the programme this morning, tried the same thing and it works! Cheers for your help, I think Fusion just needed to sleep on it 😂

[ryan.bales · Accepted solution]

I have no idea why that would be but its great to know its working! 

I do want to mention they do carry over - with a few stipulations:

• single form body that is converted to a single patch/solid
• Appearance applied at the body/component and NOT face level

The latter is what i've seen most often. 

[Anonymous]

I'm still having this issue, however, I don't know how to create a body from the individual face sets that have individual appearances.