Cant find alignment section in joint dialogue box

Cant find alignment section in joint dialogue box

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Cant find alignment section in joint dialogue box

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I'm trying to do what Brad is doing is his youtube tutorial at 19:34 to 20:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU4UDcsTQOI

The alignment section is missing in the current dialogue box....where did it go? see attached screenshot from my current design

Seems like the product documentation is outdated see other screen shot

 

Thanks

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jhackney1972
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You are using an As-Built Joint which does not offer joint alignment.  The components are aligned ahead of placing the Joint.  You want to use the Joint command which has the ability to align the joint as shown in my Screencast and in the reference video.

 

John Hackney, Retired
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jeff_strater
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It looks like the joint you are editing is an "As Built" joint.  "regular" joints have the Alignment section:

Screen Shot 2020-12-26 at 4.33.07 PM.png

 

while "As Built" Joints do not:

Screen Shot 2020-12-26 at 4.33.38 PM.png


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jhackney1972-Thankyou for taking the time to respond and create a nice screencast.

Thanks also to jeff.strater for the explanation and screen shots

I did search the product documentation before I posted my question.

Maybe someone in the product documentation team could add a quick note to the following page

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-448D0BF0-6CD8-4E2F-AF94-58BAB7F716EC

under joint allignment section add a note that says "this portion of menu only available on 'joint' not 'as built joints'

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