{"id":30190,"date":"2022-03-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=30190"},"modified":"2022-03-07T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:41:34","slug":"plastic-rules-fusion-360-product-design-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/plastic-rules-fusion-360-product-design-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Assigning Plastic Rules To Your Designs With the Fusion 360 Product Design Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Learn how to assign plastic rules to components in your design and how you can automatically assign them to various solid features using the Fusion 360 Product Design Extension.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Let’s walk through how to assign and use plastic rules in your designs with the extension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plastic Rules in Fusion 360 Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n

The Assign Plastic Rule<\/strong> command lets you assign a specific plastic rule to components in your design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plastic rule automatically controls certain properties of features within that component. These include physical material, thickness, and radii, using automatically generated parameters and physical properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this tool, you can quickly apply plastic material properties to any components in your design. Also, due to the parametric nature<\/a>, you can edit these values at any time. And then have those changes propagate to any components with the respective material rule assigned to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a best practice, you must assign the plastic rule prior to using subsequent parametric features<\/a> such as Shell or Thicken to ensure those features inherit settings and parameters from the plastic rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to assign plastic rules in Fusion 360<\/h2>\n\n\n

To start, you’ll need to access the command in the Design<\/strong> workspace. Then switch to the Plastic<\/strong> tab and locate it on the toolbar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Assign Plastic Rule<\/strong> dialog displays, you can select a component in the browser or the canvas, and see the displayed list of plastic rules. You can then expand each rule to see its specific settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These fall into three categories:<\/p>\n\n\n

Physical Material<\/h3>\n\n\n