How to Create Assemblies and Joints in Fusion 360 - Learn Autodesk Fusion 360 in 30 Days: Day #25 

Do you like Fusion 360 Assemblies? - *TIMESTAMPS* 0:00 - How to use Joints in Fusion 360 3:42 - Capture position explained 3:50 - Revert position explained 5:54 - As-built joint explained 6:23 - Joint explained 7:47 - As-built joint example 12:20 - Joint example

This channel is underrated. You need more subscribers!

i've attended paid tutorials which are half as informative and on point as yours. You have my thanks.

The "Con" from ConFusion 360 is slowly but surely fading away... Thank You!

Quite instructive tutorial on joints. Your method of explaining is clear and easy to follow along. Love your work Kevin!

"Capture Position!" That fixed my problem! Thank you! So many videos do NOT cover that, and they just treat the subject with disdain when the little error message pops up during their videos "Some components have moved...." and they say "oh I hate that message". You have a nerdy reverance for the logic and order of things, and I love it! Thank you.

To anyone watching this video today, you might be confused to see that there is no dropdown that reveals the 7 motion types anymore in the Joint or As Built Joint boxes. In the recent update, the options in this drop down menu have been moved to a new tab found within the Joint or As Built Joint boxes. The functionality remains the same, it's just organized in a separate tab instead of within a drop down menu for some reason.

Excellent work. I've nearly completed the entire 30 day series and have seen an incredible jump in my skills and confidence using this tool. Sending some Patreon love your way.

Thank you Kevin!

Another great video Kevin. I must admit, not having used any other CAD program, I am certainly happy to have found your channel!

Crystal clear, fantastic explanation and easy to follow along. Thank you so much for making this topic easy to understand!

Im so glad this is free! Thank you so much!

Super Video. Feeling much more comfortable with joints and I can use these tools for my next F360 design; a scissors jack based height adjustable planer table. Excellent presentation!

great videos. your directions are clear without all the time wasting. very efficient for learning!

Great work. That made it so easy to understand. Thanks.

yes! very helpful as always.

Great videos sir! Really Informative for a beginner.

Great job, very helpful, thank you.

Great stuff 👏

Great tutorial, thank you

Easy to understand explanation on how to use the tool. Great Job! Thanks.

Wise instructor!

Thanks

Superb ty

JOINTS 1st selection is "what you are moving" 2nd selection "where it is going" (I always get this wrong because most sketch constraints are the opposite :0 )

Good tutorials ,easy to understand please do video on modeling using 3view image

Awesome, you made get a drawer slide working! My design is parametric, and I made a rigid connection between the outer most part of the slide and the cabinet wall. But when I change the cabinet length, that wall moves accordingly, but the slide stays in the same place (which now is away from the wall's new position). Any ideas why? Many thanks.

Just when I thought I was getting the hang of things... I had a lot of trouble completing this one, but was finally successful on try #5. After creating rigid joints, some components were still movable. I believe the primary mistake I was making was selecting only the inner hole on the bottom of the red component instead of the bottom surface. After it was put in place it could me moved and appeared to have a Phillips screw head sticking out of the bottom. There were a few minor interface differences (in 2021), but not too hard to work out. Is it accurate to say that with "in-place" assemblies the order of selection doesn't matter?

Can I use this when sketching the original design? I am making a folding frame lock knife. So when I am sketching the outline of the frame and blade I need to rotate the blade on the pivot to make sure the flipper tab doesnt hit anything and then I need to select the location for the stop pin which stops the blade in the closed position and the open position. So in the closed position I need the blade to not hit the backspacer when its laying down. Just wo daring what us the best way to get this all correct from the sketch. Hopefully this makes sense. But there are no videos out there explaining how this relationship works

Thanks for the video. I tried to add contact sets that include the ball head and the red socket, but after that it got warning for conflict and the ball head can no longer move. Could you provide some advice?

Hello there; I'm trying to figure out how to connect a follower rod to a cam so that as the cam revolves the follower stays in constant contact with the outer surface of the rotating cam. Can you tell me how to make this work?

I’m going to cry making this

Hey Kevin. What I tell you...another great video. For attaching the legs to the stand piece using the as-built joint with revolute motion, I followed what you have in the video and the preview rotated but when I try to test the motion by grabbing a leg the whole assembly moves. I little flag is on the axis so I don't know why it seems to be glued together and not rotating around the axis.

Hey Kevin how to create belt drive assembly

Super1

So I have discovered the eccentric hole in component22 that makes correct assembly impossible but I can't seem to fix it. Is there a way to convert this body into something I can modify??

Kevin any way you could post another example of joint creation and motion for more complex pieces that fusion wouldn't intuitively have a feature for (ie hack and work arounds)?. Specifically material that would flex or bend (One gent posted a way to emulate the motion of a spring - quite impressive actually). I have some assembly parts that are series of pieces of wood attached to a nylon (webbing) strap. When multiple pieces are attached to a long nylon webbing strap, it acts like a flexible assembly (like a rope ladder), The only hack I can think of is to break the 'nylon part' into dozens of pieces, and apply a revolute joint to them - but still isn't quite right. Agreed - your videos and branding are way underrated; hope you get more subscribers!! Thanks

Hi, why is it that you can click and drag bodies just like that? I have to select specific component/body than press M and than move it by dragging arrows. Also at 11:21 you moved all those joints at the same time, but I can only move one at a time and I have to doubleclick on it first. I am little bit desperate here, please help.

I did the rigid joint of the crosshead to the legs. However, I can still move the crosshead around. Then when I did the ball joint of the mount to the crosshead, they both move around together. I realize that I am using a current version of 360, os maybe that's it?

Should you need to ground anything when using as-built-joint?

at the end your video how you selected and moved the leg and other parts please reply

Something i would love to see how you approach modeling is something like a castle tower. Getting the brick texture boggles my mind. Any advice?

How to draw this diagram that video link

I tried to do a cut list layout of a lower cabinet carcass with about 20 components using the joint command to move individual pieces of the carcass onto a 4x8 sheet of plywood which is also a component. This attempt turned into a 2 hour disaster. The largest problem with Fusion 360 is that there is ZERO documentation of these rather complex commands, such as Joints, or the implications of using them. I do NOT have the time or the mental bandwidth to watch 100 RU-vid videos and memorize 200 menu commands AND their sub command sets, just to see how wood is going to layout on a piece of plywood. Although your videos are well done and quite clear, in my opinion, they by no means are complete nor do they explain why Fusion just stops, doesn't do anything when it should do something, nor explain the rather obtuse error messages. It is starting to dawn on me that Fusion and apparently all the other CAD/CAM programs out there are really designed for working professional designers that do this 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, are young like you, and have an infinite memory for keeping the entire tool set in their heads AND can recall it at will AND figure out all the nuances of each command, their relationship to each and every other command set, AND how Fusion automatically does something that one may not expect. On a positive note, the parametric variables that Fusion allows one to assign values to is extremely useful. Sketchup cannot do this. One last comment, not associated with you, the Fusion team must be living in a bubble not related to the reality of their user community. As an example, to not allow the Home function to be assigned to a simple custom key is ridiculous and callous. The drawing commands like Pan/Orbit are difficult without expensive hardware, and cannot be customized in any way. So, unfortunately, I am getting older by the minute and do not want to spend what is left of my life struggling and getting frustated any more by anything made by Autodesk. I hope the best for you. You are young, brilliiant, well spoken, and articulate. You have a great future ahead of you. I just hope you don't spend that future in front of a CAD computer, going blind looking at 6 point font that is faint and almost unreadable and unchangable, memorizing stuff that has nothing to do with being creative. Regards.

how do you give the joints realistic limits, like so that they cant float through each other?

I couldn't brought the joints to animation workspace. Do the joints could bring together with the animation workspace? If not how to make joints in animation?

Just to test my understanding, what would have happened if you’d clicked Position Revert right at the end of the video?

As a newbie I'm struggling a little to follow the menus, as they have been changed. For example, I haven''t found Position as shown at 14:48. Is there a webpage that describes where these are now?

my data panel isn't showing me an example folder. just things i've made.

Is there a tutorial on how to make the tripod? I'm searching desperately for one.

me id like to know is there a way to make a join without snaping it ? i create thing with tolerence with that snap ruin everything

This video was really good up to 9:40 but then you lose me when you say "then I'll right-click and select 'repeat as built joint'" with no mention of what it is you right-clicking on. I tried a few guesses, but nothing i right click on gives me the option to 'repeat as built joint." I suppose I can just go to assembly menu and choose it again, but i would have liked to know what you right clicked on to learn the shortcut

Unfortunately, this great tutorial does not apply to the new (June 2020) joint tools

How can I hire you for a job?

a360.co/38w2Ofo I am pretty sure I followed your instructions to the letter and when it tells me to test the joints, the parts can be easily pulled apart and so there is no way to test them. I grounded the gray bracket on the top of the tripod only. All the joints worked fine when i created them. Lil Help? btw how do I send you an image file if I cant share a link? Thanks

Where is day 1?

Good tutorial, very useful. I am thinking about how to create a docking mechanism between two boat, a larger one and a smaller one (a dinghy). The basic idea is that of a cone (the passive side) in the larger boat, and a stick in the dinghy. The stick will slide into the cone. That's why I am thinking carefully through this your demo, lesson. Maybe you can do a video on a type of motion I suggested, with "joints". Also, there should be a locking mechanism, for the two boats to lock into each other. I have created this experiment: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6XxVTrHehU0.html Maybe you can suggest something along the lines ?