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Hi -
What is the purpose of the design? If what you want is steel re-enforced concrete, then you can certainly create a block of material, and give it a custom defined material that is called "re-enforced concrete" which looks like concrete as well, and might even have a density that would make the weight of such a block correct. Then, on a technical drawing, you could specify that the material used is "steel re-enforced concrete to DIN whatever" or whatever standard you like. This will work just fine for fabrication and manufacture.
If, on the other hand, you want to do a simulation of this structure, and have the material behave as a steel reenforced piece of concrete might, you'll need to either approximate heavily - which is entirely acceptable and commonly done, or you'll need specialized calculation software which Fusion 360 does not currently support.
Lastly - if you are looking to work out just how the re-enforcement should look, and how much of it you'll need, this is a specialized need more commonly found in architectural software like Revit than in a mechanical engineering software such as Fusion 360. Autodesk does provide such software as part of its Architecture and Construction offerings.
Mickey Wakefield
Fusion 360 Community Manager
@Anonymous wrote:2) ... but neither concrete nor cement is available in materials library.
Is there any option to add those materials.
You can add any material that you like.
First go to Modify>Manage Materials.
In bottom left of the Material Browser - click the folder and select Create New Library.
Give the library a name and path.
Add a Category (like Concretes, Plastics, Steels) as desired.
Copy an existing material to the Library\Category and edit the name and Properties as needed.
Once and done. You now have a custom Library of your materials.
This library should work across Autodesk products. (In fact, I simply copied this concrete material from another Autodesk product rather than searching for the properties myself.)
Hi msmith!
Check out this<> post in the forum! There are a number of links in the posted solution to youtube videos and similar that will show you how to add your own materials to Fusion 360!
One thing to note though: Concrete is a particularly difficult material when it comes to SIMULATION. Its not impossible to do - but because concrete is brittle, its not at all like Steel, or Aluminum - or most of the other "engineering" materials used in mechanical design.....so be careful about that!
Mickey Wakefield
Fusion 360 Community Manager
Check out this<> post in the forum! There are a number of links in the posted solution to youtube videos and similar that will show you how to add your own materials to Fusion 360!
One thing to note though: Concrete is a particularly difficult material when it comes to SIMULATION. Its not impossible to do - but because concrete is brittle, its not at all like Steel, or Aluminum - or most of the other "engineering" materials used in mechanical design.....so be careful about that!
Mickey Wakefield
Fusion 360 Community Manager