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Since you create the Profile sketch for the case on a different plane than you want the phone, the one Suppressed Joint in the Joints folder MUST remain Suppressed. Model is attached.
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It would be interesting to see what tutorial that is. Could you provide a link?
The reason your object doesn't lie flat is because when you use a joint to locate the component to the world origin, it snaps perpendicular to the Z-Axis. So my fist suggestion would be to set up your preferences so the Z-axis points upward. That might differ from the tutorial but will be quite helpful as you move along in Fusion 360:
That helps you with future models, but does not help you help you with the current model. That can be achieed as follows:
Set your model view to the front:
Your model view in the viewport will rotate, so the Z-Axis points toward you, out of the screen, so-to-speak.
Then click again on the small triangle under the view cube and select this:
Now the faces of the view cube are labeled appropriately.
When you click on the home button beside the view cube, your phone is still oriented vertically.
To change that, click on a corner so the phone rotates to the orientation you want to be the home view.
Then, again, click on the little triangle below the view cube and select this:
Now your model is oriented flat and the home view is also what is represented in the icon in the data panel.
Reorienting the model in the viewport in relation to the origin axis after modeling stuff usually breaks items in the timeline and is really not necessary.
@contactHDX5W wrote:
'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by your solution. Is this something that I would have to consider with any imported geometry?
No, but I've already answered that in my post.
I explain the process in this video.
