{"id":30148,"date":"2022-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=30148"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:46:06","slug":"how-to-manage-plastic-rules-fusion-360-product-design-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/how-to-manage-plastic-rules-fusion-360-product-design-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage Plastic Rules Using the Fusion 360 Product Design Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Learn how to manage plastic rules, create new plastic rules, edit existing rules, and save rules to a library to use in future designs using the Fusion 360 Product Design Extension.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fusion 360 Product Design Extension<\/a> enables an automated approach to creating complex product designs with advanced 3D design and modeling tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s walk through how to manage plastic rules using the extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manage Plastic rules – overview and setup<\/h2>\n\n\n

With the Fusion 360 Product Design Extension, a best practice is to assign a plastic rule to your components before you begin modeling. As a result, this ensures that any subsequent plastic design features automatically inherit the respective plastic properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there may be occasions when you need to edit the plastic properties or change the plastic rule and have these edits propagate to components with that same plastic rule assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edit a plastic rule<\/h2>\n\n\n

To access the command in the Design workspace, switch to the Plastic tab. Next, locate it on the toolbar or from the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the dialog, you’ll see two dropdowns: In this Design<\/strong>, which are plastic rules that are local to the active document, and Library<\/strong>. These rules are on the cloud library, and you can share them between projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you expand one of the materials, you can see what these plastic rules contain in more detail, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n