"Reverse" Pin-Slot (How to match a slot to a hole?)

[Anonymous]

See the file included: http://a360.co/2ppt9Z0

I have one part to join to another:

1. The hole is mated (by means of a Revolute Joint) to another hole, no problem.
2. The slot on the smaller part needs to mate to the next hole.

Essentially, I'm trying to match the slot to the hole.

At this point I don't care if it's by means of a Joint (preferred) or by Align, but I need these two parts aligned.

[dean.dekovic_gideon.brothers]

Hi,

maybe I'm wrong but I would do it like this:
1. align by eye or with align feature
2. as built joint

or make the revolute joint rigid and correcting the angle by eye. or make a sketch on the big component's surface to find out the angle between the circle and slot and input this angle into a revolute joint turned rigid.

Feel free to correct this method

Dean

[Anonymous]

One of the problems I've discovered, is the angle to rotate the small part in order to align it to the hole pattern in the large part is governed by the initial angle of the small part....

Wait a sec. If that's true, I could set the angle first then rotate it. Let me try that. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

So what I ended up doing, is opening the small part (Bracket) by itself and doing a slider Joint with a Bolt in the slot. I also set the limits of travel to the extents of the slot. Both the Bolt and the Bracket were defined as components.

I then imported that sub-assembly into the frame, created a revolute joint between the Bracket hole and the Frame hole. Next I performed an Align between the second Frame hole and the outer edges of the Bolt's threads. Fusion 360 was then able to match up the three components.

I tried many other ways which I'm sure should have worked, but didn't.