A Few Questions

[Anonymous]

I'm struggling with a few things so thought I'd put in one post. 

1. How do I find where to go in the Activity bar to modify a component? If I click on the part nothing in the Activity bar is highlighted (except the Moves). I have several parts that are similar looking, and since the components are not in the same place as the bodies and it's the bodies that get modified I never know what part I'm modifying.

2. When I modify a mate sometimes it will effect a feature in a part, like a chamfer (which was in no way related to the mate). Why? I've done a lot in SW so understand Historical, but not how a mate created after a chamfer would effect a chamfer.

3. I am trying to make concentric mates and planar mates (as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN4bvjfxQ4c ), but when I make a planar mates (at the ends of two cylinders) it automatically makes the cylinders concentric as well. It does the same 'double mate' when I make a concentric mate.  

4. When making an extrude cut can I offset from a face other than the origin?

 5. I'm trying to check tolernaces of cylinders, but when I go to Wireframe it doesn't illustrate the side of the cylinders so all I see are a few vertical lines. Is there any way to get it to show all the lines? I have varied the opacity under Shaded, but not really what I want. 

Thanks.

[innovatenate]

1. A couple of tips for this:

• You can enable Component Color Swatch to have a color coded tag displayed in the Timeline and the Browser

• As you select component/bodies in the workspace, the corresponding item in the browser will highlight

• If you activate a component, the timeline will be filtered and only include features that impact the active component

2. Perhaps you are using projected sketch geometry (magenta) and creating inter-component  relationships. Projected sketch geometry will update based upon the 3D geometry it was projected from. If you edit the position of a component (depending on how the move is done with the timeline), this could impact downstream features in the timeline.

3. Fusion utilizes assembly Joints which are different than Mates/Constraints in SW & Inventor. Joints will constraint multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously (depending on the joint type). Joints also require you to select a joint origin (white nodes on faces when selecting joint geometry). There are some subtle tips that can help with this.

Below are some videos and links that may help to better understand Joints:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBfQFdAT0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goEKnRpIZVk&list=PLmA_xUT-8UlJpYbha60oAQMxFlBY371oZ&index=15

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/sketching-sculpting-modeling-and/let-s-talk-about-joints/m-p/5493889?...

Let me know these help.

4. You can insert Construction Geometry to sketch on or sketch on a planar face of a component or body.

5. You may consider using the Inspect Tools for this. You may create an interference or section analysis to examine this.

I hope these suggestions help. Please let me know if this helps to answer your questions.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the very thorough post. 

1. The component will light up if I click on the right item in Browser or the Activity, but it's not working the other way around, which means to find the right item in Activity I have to click on every item until it lights up the part I'm after. 

2. Ya, not sure, I'll try and be aware of it next time. 

3. I just watched two videos and some of a forum post and still don't understand joints. In the first video it's hard to see what is being 'jointed' and in the second video it looks just like mates, only when I've tried it that way it constrains the part more than I want it to. 

4. In other words no, I have to create a plane and offset from it?

5. Tried those and may be using them incorrectly but they're not giving me a line drawing to show the tolerance. 

[innovatenate]

Q1:

Are you running on Mac or Windows? 

If you're on Window's, I suspect that the highlight in the browser could be graphics related. You may want to check and see if the display drivers have been updated, recently.  To do this:

1. Launch %windir%\system32\msinfo32.exe

2. Browse to Components > Display and check the Driver field for the Date

3. If the driver is older than 6 months, go to the manufacturer's website and update to the latest dirver.

Another thing to look into is what you're actually selecting when you pick something in the graphics workspace. There is a list of selection filters that can help you select components over bodies. 

There's also a Select Other feature if you linger on the left click that will enable you to select parent items like a component or component group.

Q2  -

Q3  Have you played around with different Joint Types or are you only using a Rigid Joint? A different Joint Type will give you different degrees of freedom. 

 

Have you experimented with using Joint Origins? These will allow you to change where components are snapping together. If you can describe a mechanism or what you're hoping to accomplish, I'd be happy to make some more specific recommendations. Screenshots might help to understand your question better.

Q4. Is the question here about 3D sketching? There is an option in the preference to enable 3D sketching. You can use the Move command, or "snap" to geometry that has been included in the sketch (see the include 3D geometry command in sketch > project/include menu).

 Q5 "....giving me a line drawing to show the tolerance."  I understand that in the initial comment, you mentioned that the tangential edge (phantom edge) of a cylinder is not showing in the wireframe. I'm not seeing this particular issue (check out the image below).

There may be some specific settings that will help these to appear. This may also be related to the graphics driver issue I mentioned earlier.

• Do you have Anti-Aliasing enabled or disabled
• Try changing Hidden Edge dimming to 100% in Preference > Display
• In Preference > General, is the graphics driver set to Direct X 11

By tolerance, do you mean you are measuring the distance between two cylindrical faces? I believe the Inspect > Measure Tool can provide the information you're looking for, see image below for clarification.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,