Manufacture arrangement does not maintain joints after adding parts

[Bjanders]

I had a manufacture arrangement with two parts (drawer fronts). I had added a joint between these parts so that the wood grains would be aligned:

I then wanted to add the backs of the drawers as well, so I added them to the arrangement. However, the joint was not respected anymore:

So I thought that maybe editing the joint and then applying it again would fix it. Which it did, but it placed the part on the same spot as the drawer back:

I was able to solve the overlaying by adding additional joints, but is supposed to work like that (both issues I had)?

[seth.madore]

Assuming I understand the question/issue, I would point out that the base level of Arrange does not offer alignment direction control. 

Arrange doesn't consider joints to any great extent, as one could also have joints to hold a cabinet together properly. Arrange will just take the components and put them on a flat plane according to their faces.

Would you be able to share your Fusion file here?
File > Export > Save to local folder, return to thread and attach the .f3d/.f3z file in your reply.

[Bjanders]

I use a lot of joints in the cabinet design, but these shouldn't and do not affect the arrangement. That's the idea of the arrangement, isn't it? Using joints in the arrangement was suggested to another user here in the forum asking for a solution to align parts so that the grains all go in the same direction. Is there a better solution to this, which I think any wood worker would need?

I don't want to share my design in a public forum. Can I send it to you privately?

This post was moved from the "Fusion Support" forum to "Fusion Manufacture". I initially considered posting in "Fusion Manufacture", but reading the description for both I opted for "Fusion Support" as it says "Report issues, bugs, and or unexpected behaviors you’re seeing.". To me this behavior felt like a bug, so that's why I reported it here.   The description for "Fusion Manufacture" is "Share tool strategies, tips, get advice and solve problems together with the best minds in the industry.", which I felt didn't fit my topic, as I wasn't really looking for advice or solving problems, but reporting an, to me, odd behavior. If you want potential manufacture bugs reported in the "Fusion Manufacture", then please update the description for the forum.

[Bjanders]

I want to stress, that I don't need help with this. The drawer unit is manufactured already.

I just wanted to help you by reporting something that seems to be a potential bug, in case you are interested in fixing it. If this is the expected behavior, then I'm fine with it.

[seth.madore]

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@Bjanders wrote:

This post was moved from the "Fusion Support" forum to "Fusion Manufacture". I initially considered posting in "Fusion Manufacture", but reading the description for both I opted for "Fusion Support" as it says "Report issues, bugs, and or unexpected behaviors you’re seeing.". To me this behavior felt like a bug, so that's why I reported it here.   The description for "Fusion Manufacture" is "Share tool strategies, tips, get advice and solve problems together with the best minds in the industry.", which I felt didn't fit my topic, as I wasn't really looking for advice or solving problems, but reporting an, to me, odd behavior. If you want potential manufacture bugs reported in the "Fusion Manufacture", then please update the description for the forum.

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This has been raised multiple times with the folks responsible for the forum descriptions and there is reluctance to change the way things are, for some reason or another.

Anything Manufacture related, bug or otherwise, belongs in the MFG forum. Otherwise, almost every post that is currently in the MFG forum could be argued that it belongs in the Support. I've always viewed Support forum as licensing, 504 errors, data loss etc. as prime examples of what belongs in Support.