topic Ground component becomes invisible when going to "Joint" menu in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Ground component becomes invisible when going to "Joint" menu

kreatronik — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:15:10 GMT

Hello,
Sth. strange is happening right now with my new project (attached).
I put several components in a new design file and wanted to joint them together. So first I grounded one component as I always do.
But now this very component is turned invisible in the joint menu.
So I tried grounding other components instead but the problem persists.
Can someone help me what's going on here? Never had such a problem 😯

Thanks and regards,

Hannes

Betreff: Ground component becomes invisible when going to "Joint" menu

g-andresen — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:02:25 GMT

Hi,

that´s a normal behaviour.

I can't tell you if it's new, but for me it's a good support for setting joints.
When activating the tool, I see which components serve as a base and cannot be selected first.

günther

Re: Ground component becomes invisible when going to "Joint" menu

jeff_strater — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 01:12:29 GMT

the behavior is not new. Fusion has always worked this way. During the Joint command, for the command preview, the first component is the one that is moved (note that this may not be the case when you hit OK, due to other joints in the system). Dimming all grounded components (and those rigidly joined to a grounded component) and making them not selectable is an aid to selecting only components that are free to move. For the second operand, grounded components are undimmed and selectable, so you can move another component to the grounded ones, but not vice versa.