Stock Material Library
The Stock Material Library is a centralized repository where you can create and manage the stock materials used in your manufacturing workflows. Each stock material has a name and type, and can also include keywords, alternate names, physical materials, and hardness information to improve searching, matching, and organization.
When you select a stock material in a Setup, Fusion groups the matching tool presets to make it easier to find suitable tools for the selected stock. Stock materials can also be associated with one or more physical materials, allowing related materials to share the same tooling recommendations.
The Stock Material Library is divided into five areas:
Stock material libraries
Manage stock materials
Browse stock materials
Filter stock materials
View stock material information
How stock materials are used
Stock materials help organize tool presets for manufacturing operations. When you assign a stock material to a Setup, Fusion groups the tool presets associated with that material. This reduces the number of tool presets you need to browse and helps you select tools that are appropriate for the stock being machined.
A stock material can be associated with multiple physical materials. For example, a single Stainless Steel stock material can represent several stainless steel grades while sharing the same tooling recommendations.
1. Stock material libraries
The navigation pane contains the available stock material libraries.
Recent: Displays stock materials that you recently used.
Document: Contains the stock materials used by the active document.
My Stock Material libraries: Contains the stock material libraries that you manage.
*Cloud: Stores your custom stock material libraries in the cloud. You can create folders to organize your libraries and create your own stock material definitions.
Fusion library: Contains the stock materials provided with Fusion. The Fusion library is read-only. To customize one of these materials, copy it and paste it into one of your cloud libraries.
2. Manage stock materials
Use the toolbar or right-click a stock material to manage library contents. Depending on the selected library and material, you can:
- Create a stock material
- Edit a stock material
- Copy and paste stock materials
- Duplicate a stock material
- Import stock materials
- Export stock materials
- Delete stock materials
3. Browse stock materials
The center pane displays the stock materials in the selected library. Select a stock material to view additional information in the Info tab.
The list includes the following information:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the stock material. |
| Type | The material category, such as Metal, Ceramic, Glass, Plastic, Stone, or Wood. |
| Hardness | The material hardness, when defined. |
| Keywords | The keywords and alternate names defined for the stock material. |
4. Filter stock materials
Use the Filters tab to narrow the list of stock materials displayed in the current library.
Type: Displays only stock materials belonging to the selected material category.
Physical materials: Displays only stock materials associated with the selected physical material.
Hardness unit: Filters materials by their hardness measurement system. For the full list, see Supported hardness units.
Material hardness: Specify minimum and maximum hardness values to display materials within a particular hardness range. Click Clear filters to remove all active filters.
5. View stock material information
Select the Info tab to view additional information about the selected stock material.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The stock material name. |
| Type | The material category. |
| Hardness | The material hardness, when defined. |
| Keywords and alternate names | Terms used to improve searching and matching. |
| Physical materials | The physical materials associated with the stock material. Because a stock material can represent multiple physical materials, the list may contain several physical material definitions. |