Manage materials in the Generative Design workspace

The use of appropriate materials is an important part of a successful generative study and influences the final shapes of outcomes. You can assign specific materials to a specific manufacturing process in your study or you can create multiple studies based on the same generative model, but assign different materials for each study.

You can select materials from the Fusion libraries. You can also modify these materials to create your own materials and use them for your study.

To manage or customize materials, use the Manage Physical Materials command. You can access it from the Materials panel of the Generative Design toolbar.

Use the Material Browser dialog to manage material libraries or modify material properties to create a custom material.

You can copy materials from the Fusion Material Library to your Favorites folder. Then, you can edit materials within the Favorites folder to define your own custom material properties. In addition, you can also customize any of the Appearance parameters such as Color, Reflectance, Translucency, and more.