Self centering vise relationship joints
You simply need to apply a Motion ink with "reverse" enabled between the two last slider joints in your assembly.
A couple of other observations:
- None of the position capture features in the timeline are needed. They can all be deleted.
- When you created the Back Block Stationary. you should have applied Fusion 360's R.U.L E #1 and created an empty component before creating a sketch and geometry. then you should have immediately grounded that component.
In general it is a good practice to ground and assemble as soon as you can.
Looking at your assembly, it has a number of other issues that I want to capture in a screencast/tutorial. But it'l take me a day or so to put that together.
@zenkustumz wrote:
I know i have issues..lmao.. Ya dont have to point the finger at me.... 🙂
I'm looking forward to it sir.. waiting patiently.. I really do appreciate your input..
I think my ideas are solid but i think my steps are rudimentary and maybe out of sinc with how I should be doing at set practice...
Thanks again in advance,
John
I am not going to point my finger at you!
I have analyzed hundreds of assemblies created in Fusion 360 created by all sorts of people, some new to CAD and 3D modeling, some seasoned veterans.
Some of these issues I've seen so often that it might be time to cover these in a little tutorial that I can refer to whenever this issues come up.
So thank you for providing a neat little assembly do do this with 😉
Here's the tutorial that discusses the room for improvements. I plan to make a second video to show how to fix this. I recorded this with Screenflow because the screencast software creates terrible video quality with recordings in full resolution. It's now on my small youtube channel so others can benefit from it. Hopefully it helps!
@zenkustumz wrote:
Where can i start to understand the steps of making a drawing? I
Lets start with the proper terminology. When designing in 3D you start with making a model, not a drawing 😉
For me personally the initial orientation of a component does not matter so much. Looking at the view cube, I usually orient it in a way so that what I consider to be the front lines up with how it is labeled in the view cube in the upper right corner of Fusion 360. In a 3D environment where objects can have any orientation it's not really so important.
If you do CAM work, make sure your coordinate system is set to Z-up. And maybe you want to orient your components so that they are oriented how they are in your main CAM setup where you do most of the machining work.
As to where do I start with a sketch, for me the main guideline is whether there are any symmetries. So all of the components in this assembly are symmetric about one plane so I'd make sure that sketches are centered, unless of course I am only making half a sketch and then mirror the geometry.
The parts themselves incl. sketches extrusions etc are much better.
You still need to work on structure. If you design a single discrete part in its own file that you want to later insert into an assembly then you don't need to create a component in that design. Each design file in Fusion 360 already is a component.
The fix is easy. Simply export that extra component into it's own file:
