Am not able to apply a joint to two components

[jmwallach51]

I have used Fusion for about a year now.  Currently I am using my personal copy (I am on subscription) at the company i work for to CNC program mills to make prototypes.  I am trying to design an assembly but I can not put a joint (cylinderical) between two components.  Every time I try, I successfully define the joint only to have it fail when I exit the feature definition.   I get the message to the effect:  Model geometry lost, using cache to build feature.  Redefine feature references.  Which I do, trying every possible surface in both parts numerous times only to get the identical message showing a red cylinder near the model. 

Unfortunately I can not, show the model but can show a partial that has the Joint relationship. 

How do you make a proper Joint relationship?    

[lichtzeichenanlage]

The image is 400 x 280 pixels. Hard to see anything. Can you please provide full screen screen captures or better a screen cast or best can you share the project?

[etfrench]

You probably need to fix the errors in your timeline.

[jmwallach51]

I'd love to share but this is intellectual property  the part you see is the joint location and will work exactly as I need.   Please see the larger attached image

[etfrench]

Does it still fail when you copy those two components to a new file? 

[TrippyLighting]

Most of the people on the forum including myself provide the help here on a voluntary basis.

The 2 parts you show in your screen shots look very simple. As such I don't think it is too much to ask for that you simply re-model these 2 components in a separate file that re-produce the behavior you are seeing. 

[jmwallach51]

I am only showing the parts of the model that have the joint as this is a proprietary design and I can not show the whole model.  Yes I can remodel the design but that is a lot of work  and if the model is not recoverable, shouldn't Autodesk  want to understand why this happened. 

I tried clearing the cache but this doesn't help.  I also tried rebuilding the failed features but that doesn't help either as this happens no matter which feature I try to use.  The suggestion to copy the model to another file might work but how do you copy the model to another file?   

[lichtzeichenanlage · Accepted solution]

Right-click the component and choose Save Copy As

[jmwallach51]

This works!!  thank you.  When I saved the component from inside the assembly to a new file and then inserted this model into the assembly I can now define Joints