Materials Object

Derived from: Base Object
Defined in namespace "adsk::core" and the header file is <Core/Materials/Materials.h>

Description

Collection of materials within a Library or Design.

Methods

Name	Description
addByCopy	Add a Material to a Design by copying an existing Material from Favorites, a Library or from the Materials stored in the Design. This method currently only applies to the Materials collection from a Design and cannot be used to copy a Material to a library.
classType	Static function that all classes support that returns the type of the class as a string. The returned string matches the string returned by the objectType property. For example if you have a reference to an object and you want to check if it's a SketchLine you can use myObject.objectType == fusion.SketchLine.classType().
item	Returns the specified Material using an index into the collection.
itemById	Returns the Material by it's internal unique ID.
itemByName	Returns the specified Material using the name as seen in the user interface. This often isn't a reliable way of accessing a specific material because materials are not required to be unique.

Properties

Name	Description
count	The number of Materials in the collection.
isValid	Indicates if this object is still valid, i.e. hasn't been deleted or some other action done to invalidate the reference.
objectType	This property is supported by all objects in the API and returns a string that contains the full name (namespace::objecttype) describing the type of the object. It's often useful to use this in combination with the classType method to see if an object is a certain type. For example: if obj.objectType == adsk.core.Point3D.classType():

Accessed From

Design.materials, FlatPatternProduct.materials, MaterialLibrary.materials, WorkingModel.materials

Version

Introduced in version August 2014