topic Re: ground is broken in Fusion Support Forum

ground is broken

JH81 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:12:14 GMT

I have an assembly made up of a number of sub assemblies and individual components. When I ground a sub assembly or part it makes zero difference as I am still able to grab and move all parts... what is going on? is this an update issue as it was OK previously. I have gone in and deleted all grounds and reapplied, tried switching it off and on again.... Please help...

Re: ground is broken

jhackney1972 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:26:22 GMT

I have tried to replicate your issue on a simple assembly and cannot. Please attach your model so other can take a look and troubleshoot your issue or at least verify it.

Take a look at the screencast, the yellow bracket is grounded and I cannot drag it, the orange casting has a rigid joint to the bushing and the bushing has a rotational joint to the bracket. I can drag the orange and bushing components but not the bracket.

Re: ground is broken

JH81 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:25:28 GMT

Thanks for the message - it turns out that unless components within an assembly are also grounded then these can be moved from the top level assembly...

Grounding everything within the assemblies has fixed the issue. Trap for newbies as Inventor/solidworks (my background) does not work like this.

Cheers

Re: ground is broken

TrippyLighting — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:04:14 GMT

I unmarked your post as bing the solution, because thats not the solution.

In the other post you made on the other board (please do not cross post) I provided a link to an Autodesk University Class that should answer most of your questions around grounding and assemblies.

If it comes to explain inferences between SW and Fusion 360, there are a number of them. I've worked with SW professionally for 15 years when I started with Fusion 360.