Restructure components

[nstevelmans]

Hello Fusion,

Can i restructure components from one assy to the top or to another assy.

[innovatenate]

When in Parametric mode (with Timeline enabled) this can be more complex than a simple yes or no. The answer may depend on how you've created the components and whether or not there are any cross-component dependencies or references.

In direct modeling, with timeline off, yes. You can do this by dragging and dropping bodies/components to other components in the browser. 

I hope this helps!

[carlhitchon]

I'm finding this frustrating.  It appears that you must structure your components the way you finally decide you want them from the start.

For example I have a plane, sketch on that plan, 3 components related to the sketch and joints between them. Then I decided I want them all in a subassembly. I created the subassembly (component) and activated it. But when I try to move these previously created items, it won't do it.  If I try to move any one of them, I get.

     Detect some position features may result downstream features fail after restructure.

It says "may result" but it doesn't tell you what the failures might be. Since it won't do it, I can't find out. 

Knowing there are some relationships between the items I wish to move I tried selecting ALL of them and moving into the new component. In this case there is no error message, it simply doesn't do anything.

So apparently the only way is to delete all the things you want to move, create the component you want them in and recreate them all.  That's not good for a "design" tool.

I think this is unfortunate because this is something that almost always happens in the design process.  I'm a software guy and in that case, I can restructure code as I please. Sure it might cause some problems but they can usually be fixed.

[tribeofhill]

Restructuring after first cut in fusion 360 is pretty much unpredictable, and bewildering. Furthermore, no attempts to rearrange things so the dependencies are cleaned up helps. If you need to restructure it seems that you have to start over, and throw away work. I agree; not good for design tool. The software is supposed to improve productivity?

[kilian2798]

Stuff like this stops me from paying for fusion 360. It's a shame.
I have not been able to find a good solution for this problem yet.