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Using the Pantone or RAL colors (palette) for your models in Fusion 360.

The Appearance Editor in Autodesk Fusion 360 offers color selection by the standard Pantone color palette. You can choose hues from the palettes PANTONE+ Solid Coated-V3, PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated-V3, PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Coated, PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Uncoated, PANTONE+ Metallics Coated, PANTONE+ Premium Metallics Coated, PANTONE FHI Cotton TCX, PANTONE FHI Cotton TCX-210 Colors and PANTONE FHI Paper TPG.

Press "a" to invoke the dialog (palette) APPEARANCE, drag the required (initial) appearance type to the panel "In This Design" or create a fresh copy and then double-click on it (or right-click > Edit). Similarly you can get to appearances from the dialog MATERIALS.

In this dialog, click the button "Color Libraries" and search or browse the requested color hue from the listed colors in the selected PANTONE palette. Confirm by OK to assign the color to the given appearance.

Colour libraries

You can also extend your Fusion 360 to use RAL, BS, AS and NCS Color Libraries by downloading the RALcolours ZIP file from Download, unzipping it to the C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Common\Material Library\20081401\slib\resource\PantoneColors folder and restarting Fusion:

RAL Colours

Native RAL palettes are already in the wishlist on IdeaStation

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See also:
Tip 13900: How to convert truecolor color hue to the nearest AutoCAD ACI color?
Tip 13597: How to convert RGB color to Pantone, RAL, AutoCAD ACI, CMYK or vice versa?
Tip 12833: RAL color library (palette) for Fusion 360 (plus BS, AS, NCS).
Tip 11714: How to assign a RAL color to a DWG object and get its ACI equivalent?
Tip 6361: Direct entry of a Pantone color hue for AutoCAD entities.

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See also:
Tip 13900:	How to convert truecolor color hue to the nearest AutoCAD ACI color?
Tip 13597:	How to convert RGB color to Pantone, RAL, AutoCAD ACI, CMYK or vice versa?
Tip 12833:	RAL color library (palette) for Fusion 360 (plus BS, AS, NCS).
Tip 11714:	How to assign a RAL color to a DWG object and get its ACI equivalent?
Tip 6361:	Direct entry of a Pantone color hue for AutoCAD entities.



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