topic Re: How to Align components? in Fusion Support Forum

How to Align components?

eliJUZP6 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:32:19 GMT

Is there a way to align these two components so that the center of the top holes are directly in a line?

Re: How to Align components?

jhackney1972 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:35:06 GMT

You forgot to attach your model. If you do not know how to attach your Fusion 360 model follow these easy steps. Open the model in Fusion 360, select the File menu, then Export and save as a F3D or F3Z file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section, of a forum post, to attach it.

Re: How to Align components?

eliJUZP6 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:36:34 GMT

The file is too big for me to attach

Re: How to Align components?

jhackney1972 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:41:10 GMT

It is real hard to see what your conditions are. Do you have a Subscription License, you can Share a link to the model from the Data Panel. If not, do you have access to a file sharing website like Dropbox or Google Drive?

Edit: you can also remove some data from your file only leaving the data needed to illustrate you question, and then export it to your local drive.

Re: How to Align components?

eliJUZP6 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:49:09 GMT

Here is the edited file with removed data

Re: How to Align components?

davebYYPCU — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:08:20 GMT

Joint both components to the same axis, then in the Joint Dialogue, offset one by the spacing distance / angle.

Might help….

Re: How to Align components?

jhackney1972 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:43:56 GMT

I have attached a video outlining what @davebYYPCU basically said to do. The only thing he probably did not realize is that you do not have your sub-assemblies joined together in themselves. So what I did in the video was to create Rigid Groups of both and then use a Rigid Joint to align them together in the axis you showed in your question. You can use the same joint to align them in the other axis but I did not do that.

(view in My Videos)

Re: How to Align components?

eliJUZP6 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:22:43 GMT

How do I use the same joint to align them in the other axis?

Re: How to Align components?

jhackney1972 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:33:40 GMT

You could use the same Rigid Joint and use the other Offset but it probably would be easier to choose a different Joint Origin that is common between the two assemblies. This way you would not have to calculate the offset distance. In the video I used this method.

(view in My Videos)