At this point, we are quite close to a full prototype. So let's go ahead and set materials for our lights here. So let's start with the solar cell and go to physical material. Let's go to at least have a plastic coin, we could use a black plastic here. Just go with this. Properties should be somewhat close.
Let's double check if you go to properties. The plastic showed up and it's the fusion 360 is going to have the information in it about all of these different materials which means we're going to have a density and we can calculate a mass Let's go ahead and click OK. Let's set the material for the solar cell folder. If I right click physical material that is going to be made out of plastic. It's going to be 3d printed and the most common 3d printed plastics. One of them is abs. Let's go ahead and just use that and it's white.
I don't like the look of it. Well, we can change the look later. Set the material for the battery holder, which is the top and I choose physical material. It's also going to be 3d printed. Use ABS plastic head. Okay.
This light cover I think we already Set. No we didn't. The light cover we can set the physical material it's going to be plastic, clear acrylic, so it's a plastic and clear acrylic. we drag that on and hit okay. This coupler piece, right click, physical material is going to be made of plastic and that'll be Delrin. See if Delrin is in this list.
It's not in this list right here. We could go with plastic opaque black, and hit okay. Let's check the material on this bottom plastic steak. First of all, let's see what is currently at if I go to properties, it's steel which is not correct. And I can go to physical material, that's also going to be plastic. So a lot of these parts are plastic and hit okay.
Let's see if the materials were pulled in for the screws which are not going to be too crucial for us. Right now. Those are made out of steel. That's okay. They're actually stainless steel screws. Now when you add the physical materials, if you don't like the look of your product, you can also set the appearance in a separate way.
Say that we wanted the solar cell folder, the appearance to be a, let's say, a matte black if we can find it. Here's a matte black and steel The same with this piece and save for the bottom a matte black. And then if we check the properties of say the top here, it should still be ABS plastic. And if we wanted to change the appearance of the light cover here, I could go to appearance and it's going to be transparent plastic. What if we tried red? See what that would look like?
That looks pretty nice. So now that I've set the materials if I wanted to, I have this entire assembly activated, I could right click and go to properties. Now of this entire assembly, I have materials calculated and fusion 360 should be able to calculate a mass for us. And it looks like it's coming out to be around 24.3 ounces. Let's say that we quickly convert that 24.3 ounces in Google to say pounds, around 1.5 pounds, or if we change it to say kilogram, less than a kilogram, so we should be able to calculate masses of items and I can get some other information as well. Instantly from this model, I should be able to see a surface area and some other things that I might be interested in.
I can see a volume moments of inertia Which can be important definitely at times and let's hit OK.