Problem in creating an assembly (with joint tool)

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone!

I'm having problems in using joint tool to create assembly. The tool works in some simple drawings that I made to test it, but when I'm trying to put a few other pieces together to check some measurements the problems occurs.

[TrippyLighting]

Can you share your design ?

[Anonymous]

Sure!

http://a360.co/2bB4DiI

[TrippyLighting]

That looks like a bug to me having to do with the use of linked components. I've seen this more than once on the Forum. Maybe @jeff_strater can take a look and comment on this.

In general, you don't need to work with linked components and can create an assembly all in one file when using Fusion 360. If you break the links in your current file, you can assemble this without a problem and can continue to edit and ad to your design.

Consider following Fusion 360's R.U.L.E #1 

When in doubt, before doing anything, create a component and make sure it's activated.
All objects created after activating the component such as sketches, bodies, construction geometry, joint origins, etc.  are created in that component.

This has several advantages:
1. On activation the timeline is filtered to show only those items in the timeline that pertain to that component. That will make the quickly growing timeline much easier to work with.
2. If a component is exported to the data panel with "save as" this will also export the complete parametric design history.
3. The joints in the "Assemble menu only work with components.
4. Drawings can only be created from components
5. Only components show on the BOM

[jeff_strater]

yes, I can verify that this is a bug.  The orientation on preview is fine, but when you hit OK, it goes wonky.  Shouldn't be a limitation with linked components, though, that should be perfectly OK to do.  We'll look into it.

Thanks for sharing your model.  That helps immensely.

Jeff

[jeff_strater]

I tested As Built Joint, and it works OK, assuming the components are placed correctly (which they might not be).  This could be a workaround for you, until we fix the bug:

Jeff

[TrippyLighting]

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@jeff_strater wrote:

Shouldn't be a limitation with linked 

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True! I did not mean to suggest that. Breaking the link was simply the first workaround that came to my mind.

Using an as-built joint is a better workaround.