constrained rotation

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I imported an assembly in Fusion360 from a stp file. It's a lamp.

The assembly consists of 63 components and its slight rotated on Y axis (I don't know the angle)

I want to move this assembly on 0,0,0 world axis and rotate it orthogonally.

In Rhino I do these steps:

I select all the parts, it's a snap, in Fusion360 tooks 10 seconds, the coloured wheel spins, Fusion360 thinks....then does the selection.

In wireframe viewport mode (or ghosted) I select the center point of an arc (body edge) as pivot rotation (how do I select the center point of that arc in Fusion360?), snap the second point on the quadrant of the same arc as reference axis, press shift to constrain the rotation (ortho), drag the mouse to finish the rotation.

In Fusion360 is almost impossible to select a rotational pivot if we have several components that are inside to each other (nested).

Also if i try to snap the pivot point it automatically aligns tangent to the surfaces, I can't aling it parallel to the ZX plane.

Please show me how to align a medium complex assembly slight rotated on all Y,X,Z, axis.

Thank you.

regards

[jeff_strater]

thanks for posting.

We are aware of the selection performance problem for larger models, and are actively working on it.  We have already made some great improvements in this area, which will be available in the next update (coming soon!).

Regarding orienting a model, it would help to see the exact data.  If you can share the STP file, we'd be happy to take a look.

There are a couple of commands that are likely to be helpful.  They are Move and Align.  Move is for general, free movement of components, bodies, etc.  Align is used also used for moving these same objects, but allows you to select geometry from the object-to-move and geometry to move it to.

Alternatively, if your design has components, creating Joints between them is a way to permanently relate two components to each other.

Which one of these will work best for your case depends on the data, the geometry involved, and whether or not it contains components.

Again, I'd be happy to take a look, if you would like to share the data.

Thanks,

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)