Ground all parts in an assembly

[mohammadmaaz2010]

what does ground means?..i was watching a tutorial and he slected a body and right clicked and selected "ground"..what does ground do in assembly?

[jeff_strater]

The Ground command will lock a component in place, so that component drag or joints will not allow it to move.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[mohammadmaaz2010]

so basically .it will lock the component but not the bodies which are on the component..right?

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Yes, that is correct.  It will lock the component's position with respect to other components.  So, for component dragging and joints, that component will stay locked.  But, yes, using Move, with the Object type of "Body, sketches..." selected, you can still move a Body within that component (or a sketch, or work geometry, etc).

Jeff

[mohammadmaaz2010]

thanks for help

[rsteele]

When I have a grounded component, why can it still be moved with move? This doesn't make sense to me???

Thx!

[Phil.E]

@rsteele

As Jeff explained, there are differences between bodies and components. Sounds like you are moving the body within the envelope of the grounded component.

• Bodies are containers for 3D shapes.
• Components are containers for Bodies, Sketches, Construction objects, etc.

So within the confines of a component, bodies have freedom of movement.

Why move a body? Well, some bodies are only used as construction tools. Picture a patch body that is used to split a solid body. Those should both exist inside the same component. You may need to move the Patch body to affect the split location. Just one example.

Lets take a close look at the Move command and notice the options.

The Move command defaults to body selection. So there are a couple ways to do this "easy".

To move a component, instead of body.

1. Select the component in the browser and RMB to get Move. The component option is selected for you.

2. Double click the component in the design itself, this selects the component. RMB to Move, and the component option is selected for you.

3. Start Move command, switch to Component option, pick your component.

4. Drag the component, if you have "component drag" turned on.

There are a few more ways, but you should get the idea.

Please let us know if you have more questions.

Thanks,