Joint Assembly Method Sucks

[Anonymous]

I am coming to Fusion from 10 years of SolidWorks.  The most annoying thing I have found with this program is the mating process.  The Joint method is pretty handy if you are doing something simple but add minor complexity and the process becomes very cumbersome.  

1. Process:  Add a Joint origin to the part, add another JO to the mating feature, then make the joint.  That work flow is more time consuming than just picking the relationships for the two part directly (and skipping the final joint step).  
2. If you are using Joint Origins in an assembly the JO can not be in be selected if it is within the space of a second body.  You have to hide the offending body to select the JO.
3. If the JO is in the middle of a body, you must spin the model so that your cursor selects it, otherwise it will select a default JO.  Why doesn't the JO have priority over the default targets?  I went to the trouble of creating it.

Suggestion:

Allow for direct mating as well as Joint Assembly.  Let the user decide what method of assembly is best for their needs.

[delaing]

"To select a body in the viewport you can single-left-click on any 3D object, a vertex, an eye or a face selects a body."
What do you mean by, select an eye?

Also, if I left-click on one face of a component, it doesn't actually "select" the Body of that component, does it? It seems to highlight it somewhat with a dashed line showing in the Browser.

Just trying to understand.

Delain

[TrippyLighting]

That "eye" was a typo and should be replaced with "edge".

By default a left-click does select the body in a component. That can be changed in the selection filter settings.

A double-left-click selects a component.

[geogod2066]

I would recommend playing around with the selection panel. I believe By default its the left most panel in the design workspace. You can change your preferences for selecting bodies, faces, etc. 

[delaing]

Thank you