Mating a two simple components

[koehmatt]

I'm attempting to mate/add joints to two components. A component that needs machining and its respective fixture plate. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to precisely position these two objects. I've place a revolute joint at at 1 dowel pin location, but I can't find a good way to constrain the other locating pin (circled in blue).

This is something that would take about 3, 5 second steps in my professional CAD software:

 1) Mate the two planar surfaces locking the majority of the DOF

 2) Locating first pin axis 

 3) Location the second pin axis

What is the correct fusion 360 method/workflow for doing this? Ideally, I'd fix my part to the surface and arbitrarily position it. Then use that position to create the features in the fixture plate through projections.

Any help the community could provide would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt 

[g-andresen]

Hi Matt,

This is how I do it: also for the 2nd pin a revolute joint.
The warning that appears in this process can be ignored.

günther

[TheCADWhisperer]

File >Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here.

[laughingcreek]

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@koehmatt wrote:

... Ideally, I'd fix my part to the surface and arbitrarily position it. Then use that position to create the features in the fixture plate through projections.

If fixing it to an arbitrary position on the surface is all you need to do, than just use a single rigid joint, and position with the joint's offsets.  select a point on the back of the part, and on the face of the fixture for you rigid joint location.