Examine generative design materials

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Examine generative materials.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to define study materials

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and demonstrate adding materials to a favorite library

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in fusion 360.

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We're going to carry on with our internal combustion engine gen design set up

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at this point.

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We want to take a look at the materials for our

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study as well as managing our physical materials in fusion.

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Three 61st, let's take a look at our study materials.

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Fusion 3 60 will divide the study materials based on our manufacturing methods.

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We can apply materials to all methods universally.

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However,

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it's important that we identify materials that are

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specific for things like additive and die casting.

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So we're gonna go into our unrestricted method

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and note that it automatically brings in aluminum A L SI 10 M G.

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This material is made for 3D printing aluminum.

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You also notice that there's a calculator icon to the right of it,

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which lets us know that this material has costing data associated with it.

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When we navigate to our additive manufacturing note

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that that aluminum material is there as well.

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We can take a look at our fusion 3 60 additive

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material library expand the metals and we can add additional metals

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while it wouldn't make sense to do a Cobalt chrome or

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in canal connecting rod, we might potentially do a titanium one.

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So I'm gonna add titanium to the additive manufacturing method

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under milling. Notice that aluminum 60 61 is added by default.

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Again, with costing data,

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we're gonna navigate to the fusion 3 60 material library.

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Take a look at metals and note that aluminum

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and aluminum 60 61 are going to have the same properties.

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We also want to identify any additional aluminum materials we might want to use.

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Notice that costing data is associated with several of the

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different heat treated aluminums as well as this welded aluminum.

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We're gonna add 70 75

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then take a look at our die casting

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notice that under die

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casting aluminum, a 356 T six has been added.

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So in this instance,

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we have materials applied to all of the different

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manufacturing methods and we added a few extras.

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Let's go ahead and close out our study materials and

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let's take a look at our manage physical materials options.

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I'm gonna drag the material browser to the center of the screen

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and

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increase its size by finding the bottom corner and dragging it out to the right.

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When we're taking a look at our materials in fusion 3 60 we have a material browser,

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the very top has our document materials.

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These are all the materials that we currently

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have inside of our generative design study.

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We can see that there is also a default steel material and this is the default

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for all of Fusion 3 60 designs unless this has been changed in your preferences.

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As we look at the bottom, we have a favorite section.

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We have a Legacy Material Library and then we have the Fusion 3 60 Material Library.

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As we look through the Fusion 3 60 Material Library,

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we can identify materials such as this aluminum material.

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Note,

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there's a lock icon on any materials that are located in the Fusion 3 60 library.

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In order to make any changes to these, we need to add them to our favorites.

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We can do this by selecting a material to our favorites and display and editor.

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When we do this,

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it will expand the editor on the right hand

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side and we can modify things like its identity,

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its appearance and physical properties.

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This is great.

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If you have a material that is slightly different than something in the library,

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you can use one of these default materials

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to define its mechanical and strength properties.

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The next thing that we can do is we can create our own material.

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When we create a material, we're not actually creating something from scratch.

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What we're doing is we're creating a material based on a preselected default.

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For example, if we go into our Fusion 3 60 Materials Library,

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and we select one of our aluminum materials,

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we have the option to add it to our materials editor.

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So we're taking all of the properties associated with that default material.

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So very similar to copying one to our

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favorites or by duplicating a selected material,

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we're gonna be starting from a base point and

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not entering every value as a starting point.

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It

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is important to note that there are advanced properties

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for some materials that you might want to adjust.

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If you're talking about doing a simulation study,

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things like how the material is going to behave.

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In this case,

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we're going to leave most of these materials in the linear behavior range.

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But note that there are options such as temperature dependent and nonlinear.

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We're gonna select OK.

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And then we're gonna close out our material browser.

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When we take a look at our study materials one more time,

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we want to identify the fact that we have our fusion 3 60 materials library,

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our additive library and then our favorites here at the bottom.

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So any materials that you may have added to your favorites library,

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make sure that you do edit or change the name or descriptor of them.

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If you do modify their properties.

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For this example,

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we're gonna be using all materials that come from

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the fusion 3 60 additive or material library.

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But understanding how to copy and modify those materials can be

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an important step in making sure your geneive results are accurate

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at this point. Let's make sure that we do save our design before moving on.