Help Mating Two Faces

[Anonymous]

 

Hi all,

I’m used to using Inventor where they had the mate feature to connect two faces. How could I use fusion 360 to mate these two highlighted faces so that they can both still move independently while maintaining contact between their faces? Thanks!

[jhackney1972]

Each one must be a component, then placed in an assembly.  You do not say their condition so I have to state the obvious.  One will be Grounded and then use a Planar joint between the two faces.  Attach your model and the forum users will be happy to help.

[Daniel_Wbbr]

To add further explanation to the answer provided by jhackney1972 for us complete noobs:

Select the Joint (J) command from the assembly ribbon. In the 'Motion' tab, change the default 'Rigid' to 'Planar'; once selected, return to the 'Position' tab of the Joint assembly tool and select the two faces to be "mated".