Still cannot select new component from "Edit Joint"

[Anonymous]

According to the latest update notes, different components should be selectable while editing a joint, rather than having to delete and create a new joint. However, even though I just got the update and restarted Fusion, I still can't select different components for Joints, just like before. Note that I do have the new Toolbar UI, and I have confirmed that I also have the updated Sketch tool that allows sketches to scale with one dimension. This part of the update doesn't appear to function for me?

[CoastLineModels]

Same here, same old behaviour as has always been...

[jhackney1972]

It works as advertised, at least for me.  See screencast.  You tried to re-select only one of the components, the grayed-out one.  Try the other selection so you are selecting the one that is not grayed-out.

[rishabh.bisht · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Thanks for your post!

There is a technical limitation as of now wrt Edit of Joints - The selection of the new component on edit is restricted to the the sibling of the original component. I apologize for it wasn't shared before, an unfortunate miss on our part.
 

I can take a closer look and confirm if you could please share the file.

[Anonymous]

Rishabh,

Thank you for the clarification, I appreciate that. I suppose "Sibling" is any copy of the same linked part?

That actually makes a lot of sense, since the joint has already allowed for possible joints on that component, so it can extrapolate to different instances of the same component. Or something probably like that...

Thanks!

[jeff_strater]

Hi @p.riebe - @rishabh.bisht is offline, so I thought I'd try to help out here.  "Sibling" here refers to not just instances of the same component, but more to "components at the same level of the component hierarchy".  Meaning:  at the same level in the component browser.

Here is a video with audio that hopefully will help explain this a bit:

[rishabh.bisht]

Quick update- The limitation for Edit Joint is updated in our Learning Portal - Edit joints. 

"Edit Joint gives you the ability to edit the work you have already done with the Joint, it also proves as a way to change your component selections by changing the location on the component or replacing the component with a sibling component."

[tiktuk]

It would be great if this was also noted in for example the tooltip hover for the snap point control.

I was just hit by this and I thought it was a bug that I could not select the component I wanted.

[jlarsonLP454]

Bumping this topic to see if any improvement is on the product roadmap. I've run into it enough times to come here searching for a solution. At least I understand now why it grays out some parts and not others. I'll continue using the workaround of deleting existing joints and creating new ones, but it would be handy if it didn't have this limitation when you edit an existing joint.

[tedbradley314]

I believe I may have just run into this issue. I have a joint with a linked component. I now want to edit the joint to join a different sub-component within the same linked component. But it's not selectable. I'm going to lose more than an hour if I have to delete and create new joints as I make variations of my model, since each model has 7 such joints and I have to make a half dozen variations.