topic Re: Misplaced components in 3D when pushed from 2D. in Fusion Support Forum

Misplaced components in 3D when pushed from 2D.

ewFFUKN — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:23:26 GMT

Hi,

Now and then I have problem with buggy behaviour when pushing to 3D. Sometimes components are not placed. Sometimes they are rotated. And now today when pushing a PCB to 3D the result is components shifted in height axis. Find attached images. All SOT-227 transistors should be placed on the underside of the board. I have added another four of them but they are placed on the top side.

My solution is often to break the link and generate a new 3D PCB from scratch. Sometimes just saving the 2D PCB before pushing solves the problem. I do not manipulate the 3D PCBs much at all after pushing so I don't think I am doing anything special other than adding/deleting moving stuff in 2D and then pushing to 3D again.

Also hiding the top transistors reveals that four screws are messed up. They should not be placed in the middle of the footprint.

All 14 of the transistors are using the same footprint.

Any known issues with this?

Re: Misplaced components in 3D when pushed from 2D.

ewFFUKN — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:53:28 GMT

Update: I broke the 2D to 3D link and generated a new PCB and it worked fine.

Also just pushed an update to another PCB and one of the capacitors is misaligned. See image below.

Re: Misplaced components in 3D when pushed from 2D.

teconard — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:54:05 GMT

This problem still exists in Fusion 2.0.18961 x86_64.

In the image below, note the misalignment of 2 connectors (J12 & J13). The connectors J7-J13 are the same library/3D model.

Breaking the 3D link and then pushing the 2D PCB to a new 3D PCB resolves the issues.

Now I have a problem where I cannot delete the old 3D PCB file even though it is not being used by anything. When attempting to delete, Fusion gives the error "Cannot delete selected data. Data is in use or relationships exist on selected data."

Re: Misplaced components in 3D when pushed from 2D.

ewFFUKN — Mon, 06 May 2024 09:16:21 GMT

Hi, regarding deleting files, maybe an older revision of the same file is used somewhere. What I do is I have a project called Trash. I move all files that I don't want to keep into Trash. You can later archive the Trash project if needed but I just keep the files there like a recycle bin. That way I keep them out of my normal folders.

For the new file that you have pushed from PCB, you can rename it to the same file name as the old one. You have to replace the file in your design with the new file through. Probably also have to re-Joint them.