topic Am not able to apply a joint to two components in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Am not able to apply a joint to two components

jmwallach51 — Fri, 25 May 2018 21:41:40 GMT

I have used Fusion for about a year now. Currently I am using my personal copy (I am on subscription) at the company i work for to CNC program mills to make prototypes. I am trying to design an assembly but I can not put a joint (cylinderical) between two components. Every time I try, I successfully define the joint only to have it fail when I exit the feature definition. I get the message to the effect: Model geometry lost, using cache to build feature. Redefine feature references. Which I do, trying every possible surface in both parts numerous times only to get the identical message showing a red cylinder near the model.

Unfortunately I can not, show the model but can show a partial that has the Joint relationship.

How do you make a proper Joint relationship?

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

lichtzeichenanlage — Fri, 25 May 2018 21:51:28 GMT

The image is 400 x 280 pixels. Hard to see anything. Can you please provide full screen screen captures or better a screen cast or best can you share the project?

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

etfrench — Sat, 26 May 2018 00:00:51 GMT

You probably need to fix the errors in your timeline.

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

jmwallach51 — Sat, 26 May 2018 04:09:03 GMT

I'd love to share but this is intellectual property the part you see is the joint location and will work exactly as I need. Please see the larger attached image

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

etfrench — Sat, 26 May 2018 04:55:53 GMT

Does it still fail when you copy those two components to a new file?

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

TrippyLighting — Sat, 26 May 2018 10:08:16 GMT

Most of the people on the forum including myself provide the help here on a voluntary basis.

The 2 parts you show in your screen shots look very simple. As such I don't think it is too much to ask for that you simply re-model these 2 components in a separate file that re-produce the behavior you are seeing.

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

jmwallach51 — Sat, 26 May 2018 16:02:46 GMT

I am only showing the parts of the model that have the joint as this is a proprietary design and I can not show the whole model. Yes I can remodel the design but that is a lot of work and if the model is not recoverable, shouldn't Autodesk want to understand why this happened.

I tried clearing the cache but this doesn't help. I also tried rebuilding the failed features but that doesn't help either as this happens no matter which feature I try to use. The suggestion to copy the model to another file might work but how do you copy the model to another file?

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

lichtzeichenanlage — Sat, 26 May 2018 16:16:49 GMT

Right-click the component and choose Save Copy As

Re: Am not able to apply a joint to two components

jmwallach51 — Sat, 26 May 2018 18:24:05 GMT

This works!! thank you. When I saved the component from inside the assembly to a new file and then inserted this model into the assembly I can now define Joints