How to place edge of component against a face

[oaklander]

How can I make something similar to the assembly in the picture? The two joints on the left are easy but how do I make the one on the right? I have a Solidworks background and there I would just place the edge coincident with the face.

That's not possible in Fusion 360 but I think that I could enable contact and turn the angled plate against the horizontal plate and after that create a rigid group containing the horizontal and angled plate. Is there a better way to do it?

[TrippyLighting]

It takes less than a minute to do that stuff in your image in Fusion 360, but I am assuming you presented a simplified case.

Perhaps explain what you really want to model/design so we can provide you with better help.

Usually narrow questions yield only narrow answers and alternative solution are not provided.

[oaklander]

The picture is not perfect, but I can't post a picture of the actual model.

But think that the picture is enough. All I want is to place the component so that its edge is on the face of another component.

[TrippyLighting]

Easy as pie. See model attached.

[chrisplyler]

Triiiiiiiiiiiiippy...

Suppose you had three Components brought in from separate files. How could you JOINT them into that position? Can you make an edge Planer to a plane? No.

Like this:

Rigid joint holding the two perpendicular bits together.

Revolve joint holding the third bit to the top.

Pin-Slot joint lines up the edge at the bottom.

[chrisplyler]

And if you make the perpendicular joint a revolve instead of a rigid, then you can do this:

[TrippyLighting]

@chrisplyler ROTFLMAO! Sure, but would that not be an assumption 😉

But seriously, why would you import three plates ?

[davebYYPCU]

Can you make an edge Planer to a plane? No.  Yes you can.

[chrisplyler]

@davebYYPCU  With a Joint? I'm unable to do so.

[chrisplyler]

@TrippyLighting  I just thought the poster didn't really specify, and so to cover the possibilities, he might want to see how to have completely unrelated Components be Jointed into that position/behavior also.

I often make Components right in the master assembly file of course, but I want them to be fully self contained if possible, such that I could save them out separately if I ever wanted to. So I want unique sketches belonging to each Component that don't have any dependencies outside of that Component.

And besides...your solution didn't light up! Have you no honor, sir?

[davebYYPCU]

Not so, you do it with every Joint, that utilises a vertex.

 (I am not including As built Joints)

Taking the triangle plates example, 

Every edge is planar to a face, therefore a Joint created at any vertex, is then capable of being offset and or rotated to the desired position.  Joint's Move triad has 6 degrees of freedom in the creation routine.

Would need a screencast demonstrating the problem for a more specific answer.

Might help.....

[chrisplyler]

@davebYYPCU  I definitely want to see that Screencast.

I am unable to create a Planar Joint between the two components that draws the edge of the "hypotenuse" Component down onto the face of the bottom Component in the orientation given previously.

Pin-Slot? Bingo. Planar? No joy.

[davebYYPCU]

Planar, - Planar Joint, wasn't what I was thinking, 

This is what I was thinking, but in making this vid, what I was thinking, doesn't work in all cases.

[chrisplyler]

Right. Technically, a Revolve can bring an edge planar to a face.

But I had already used a Revolve to set the upper position of the triangle (as shown previously). Needed another joint to suck the other edge down to the bottom face. Can't do it with a Planar. That's the context in which I said you can't make an edge Planar to a face. I meant the joint type. Sorry for the confusion.