Struggling to define locations of component-parts in a component-assembly

[Anonymous]

I am new to Fusion 360.  I am coming from a Catia V5 background.

For my first F360 project, I am making a simple weldment.  For now, I have (3x) pieces of tubing in the weldment.

I can't figure out how to define the locations of the component-parts relative to each other using joints.  I want to make the locations easy to modify as well (say I decide to increase the diameter of the tubing which would change how everything is offset).

In Catia, I would fix/anchor my first part, and then add (3x) offset constraints between my fixed/anchored part and the part I am defining its location.  In Catia, I would use the origin planes (XY, XZ, YZ) on the (2x) parts to define the offset constraints.

I can't figure this out in F360.  I think i want to use the Rigid Joint, but I am unable to pick the origin planes and I don't see an offset option either if I pick a feature.  

Any tips?

I'm looking how to add (3x) offset constraints to the below model.  (1x) offset between the (2x) yellow highlighted planes, (1x) offset between the (2x) red highlighted planes, and (1x) offset between the (2x) blue highlighted planes.

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I would simply add a helper sketch to one component with a construction line (it's a normal line in the video, I've cleaned up the attached export) and some points. Add dimensions to it and you can use those in your joint operation. 

If you want to change distances, simply edit the helper sketch and the joints will follow after you've finished your edit task.

if your pattern is regular, you could use the pattern command to create the instances of your component and than simply use As-built Joints. Helper script for the first instance and the pattern path is still needed.

[chrisplyler]

Oh...

And if you like, you can type a User Parameter name into any of the Offset fields instead of a hard value.

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... or you can just edit the model parameters. Is this to abstract you can rename the d1, d2 ... defaults by more or les whatever name you have in mind. And if this is inconvenient because they are somewhere in a list just make them favorite and the are at the top of the list 😉