topic Grabbing a component in Fusion Support Forum

Grabbing a component

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:32:34 GMT

I’m sorry for posting such a question but I can’t find the answer for the life of me. I’ve created two components, a bolt and nut. Ive created a joint and created a motion link. When I click animate, it the nut goes up and down the bolt. Perfect. The problem is, how do I “grab” the nut and spin it around the bolt? Every tutorial show that after you create the motion link, you just click and drag the part and it should move around the joint. All mine does it create a selection box. It doesn’t grab anything. What am I doing wrong?! This is driving me insane!

Re: Grabbing a component

jhackney1972 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:43:39 GMT

You really need to attach you model so the forum users can give you an answer for "your" model and not ours. If you do not know how to attach your model, open it up in Fusion 360, select File menu and then Export and save the file to your hard drive. Then attach it to one of your forum posts using the Attachment section.

Re: Grabbing a component

jhackney1972 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:33:50 GMT

Are you having difficulty attaching your model? You will get a quicker answer if you do.

Re: Grabbing a component

jeff_strater — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:44:21 GMT

if your design is a Direct Modeling design, there is an option for "component drag". If this is off, you will get behavior similar to what you describe. Otherwise, as @jhackney1972 says, share your model here...

Re: Grabbing a component

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:17:03 GMT

Thanks for the reply. In the process of recreating the model to upload here, I found what I was looking for and feel pretty stupid now. I wanted to manually "thread" the nut on the bolt just like the animation. I didn't realize I had to double click the joint and grab the slider to spin the nut around the bolt. From the tutorial I watched, they grabbed the nut and started spinning without having to double click and grab a slider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYRS5xs9f3M&t=780s. @Anonymous:57). When I try to do that, it either makes a selection window or it grabs both the nut and bolt and moves them around on the workspace. Same thing when I watched the tutorial for a door hinge, he was able to grab one half of the hinge and rotate it around the pin(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGgmA1WZESs&t=287s @4:35)

Re: Grabbing a component

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:15:32 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion. I did try that out but that didn't solve my issue. I did eventually figure it out. I just replied to jhackney1972 as to what I did. I was thinking it was a checkbox I was missing just like you were suggesting and I went through every menu I could to find a checkbox that would solve my woes. Thanks again for the help.

Re: Grabbing a component

jhackney1972 — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:16:10 GMT

So you are saying you have solved your forum question? If so, please close it by using the Accept Solution icon, if not, please attach your model so the forum users can help you.