How to model Fusion 360 Joints for Mitee Bite Fixture Clamps! FF70 

Instead of suppressing one of the revolves, just enable contact between the hexagon part and the work piece and it will self align as you turn the screw. Alternatively, leave contact sets out of it entirely and create a planar joint between one of the hexagon faces and the work piece, that will constrain the two revolves in the right fixed position. The way you did it, it was pure luck that one of the hexagon faces happened to be more or less parallel with the relevant face of the work piece.

I remember using solidworks 12+ years ago to design an ITB manifold and never had an issue calculating interference dynamically. I was really surprised how resource intensive Fusion 360 collision detection is.

I had a dream the other night that fusion had added SW style mates. That's how lame I am, I actually dream about software adding features.

I'm afraid I cooled on Fusion360 when I started trying to use the whole "joints" thing - I just can't get my head around it. I mean, something as simple as a parallel mate, and you got to do a bit of trickery to make it work? I'm so used to the Solidworks mates, and I've actually gone back to using SW for modelling, keeping Fusion for the toolpath generation instead. (Due to, aherm, a series of unfortunate events, I know have a full license for Solidworks, so I might as well use the blasted thing!)

I can see why this could be a very useful step in determining work layouts. What kind of computer are you using?

You could use a motion link between both your revolve joints. Simple and not so taxing on the computer.

Are the McMaster-Carr parts actually Mitee-Bite® brand?

I've went from being amazed by your abilities, to super jealous 😂

I'm very new to Fusion so I could be wrong. I think that if you use a slider joint on an origin point perpendicular to the side of "part1" and then use a planar joint between "Hex Clamp" and the new origin you will get the sides parallel.

well whats your computer setup man? Sounds like upgrade time to me!

Mr. Saunders just a beautiful snippet of CAD information......Just just got a thumbs up, already Subscribed, but any information on how to make your own tooling for a home workshop has my attention. Do you realize how many trolls like me, have their own little machine shop, with nothing but time to look for inspiration on building our own tools but have never touched or seen the real article. Maybe there is a separate opening for this in a tutorial angle, without the ticket getting clipped. I Have A Idea. I'm in New Zealand, how do we chat. Regards Dave.

I see this video is 6 years old. Does Fusion360 have a parallel mate yet?

You are the best!!!!

HI John, It seems you still haven't discovered the 'Align' command!

So what is the advantage of being able to put that on the computer screen? You don't show work holding on other parts when they are being held in a vice. Or is this just a way to demonstrate what can be done with the program?

Hey John, great video! I was just wondering if you could post the specs for your CAD computer. I have been wanting to build a new CAD computer to use with Fusion but I'm not sure what all I will need. I had a computer setup for Solidworks in the past but I have heard that the requirements for the graphics are different that those for Fusion. I am not a computer expert but I think it had something about how Solidworks being open gl and fusion being direct X so the graphics card requirements were different. Anyway, I am just wondering what I NEED in order to run the CAD and CAM efficiently and I figured you would be a good person to ask since you use it all the time and I also thought others may be in the same boat.

For your computer, what kind of specs are you using for cpu, ram and video card?

Can you not use planes/surfaces/edges to build the assembly? IE the OD surface of the pin to the ID surface in the plate, OD surface of offset pin to ID surface on hex, bottom of hex to top of plate, bottom surface of the offset part of pin to the top surface of the step in the the hex? Having to build it the way you have shown would drive me insane. That would be an absolute, don't even waste your breath trying to show me other features, kind of deal breaker if Autodesk was trying to court me on Fusion. Maybe I've just been too spoiled by NX and SW.

Hi! NYC CNC I have a trouble for you to answer, the program Fusion 360 postprocessing you use the file handler to the processing center, I Chinese from my CNC is drilling and tapping machining center, using the DASEN-3I system, the new generation system, do you think a good with some postprocessing.

Does Fusion 360 have a constraint function? It would be under the assemble section of your toolbar with the joint function. I know Inventor does, and it has a parallel constraint that is similar to the one in solidworks.

why not use a plane as your "parallel" ref for your joint?

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Have you thought of going metric and working in mm (millimetres) ie 4.826mm rather than 0.19" inches etc...

I don't like this joints, they are faster if you need to do something simple, but once I did two mate in SolidWorks so my part can move only in one direction and for that limitation I needed to do tip of parallel away from 3D surface for 1 mm or so, so I can see how far away is my other side of parallel from vice's face need to be. I don't know how would I be able to do it with F360, If you need a single more complicated think, joints are much slower and less flexible. :S

To get a parallel constrain you can use an angular constrain between the two faces or lines and set it at 0 degrees, this will keep them parallel. At least this is what I do on inventor

Should be able to leave those components how they were and not pull them out of the assembly. I use ball joins from McMaster library all the time and leave them as is. I activate that component and then do the joint.

has fusion always been your programing software

why did you switch from Solidworks to fusion 360? Is the CAM software better in fusion?

嗨！纽约数控我对你的回答，您可以使用文件处理程序来处理中心的方案融合360后处理，从我的数控我中国是钻孔和攻丝加工中心，采用DASEN-3I系统故障，新一代系统，你觉得用一些后期处理的好。

computer tax?

Have a 7700K @ 5GHZ and using "contact sets" used exactly as shown just causes my twelve 120mm CPU fans to go 100% briefly while locking up. Memory usage is around 50%(8gb out of 16gb) and CPU usage hits around 30-50% but nothing happens.

You could use a motion link between both your revolve joints. Simple and not so taxing on the computer.