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Manage materials

Manage materials - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Manage materials

- [Instructor] Every time you begin creating a design inside of Fusion 360, a physical material is applied to that component. You can always change the material of that component to another material in the library. Most users find that there are far more materials in the library than they would typically use. And others will find that there are materials in the library that are close to what they need but not exactly. Fusion 360 will allow you to create your own library and even add your own materials to it. One way to do this, is in the simulation workspace, under the materials panel, we can select manage physical materials. The material browser will present you with the libraries that are built into Fusion 360. There are three primary material libraries and a legacy one as well as the appearance library, which is where you get your paint, your plastic appearances, all of the overrides that give your component to…

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