Joints, Mates, and Moving Things Around in Autodesk Fusion 

Love the recent collabs with Matt. He is such a good teacher!

As much as I practice this, 15 years of doing constraints the Inventor way still doesn't make joints much easier. There's times I don't want all the degrees of freedom locked out. I just wanna click on one plane, click on another plane or surface and constrain them. Boom, done, on to the next step. Seems like the Joint command makes EVERY interaction a whole little research project where I'm figuring out what points to use, how to project and setup points the way I want, doing my homework; vs just clicking on pairs of surfaces and watching the assembly come together. It's like making a new toolpath in CAM vs an extrude. I want something as simple and quick and intuitive as extrude, not dealing with multiple menu options for basic things EVERY SINGLE TIME. If I dumped 43 parts into a single design space and wanted to start joining them together I'll be all day going at it. This video does do a good job showing that it can be easy and that the basic stuff like 'constrain one plane with another plane' IS in there, but it's absolutely buried. And then the limitation of 1 joint between two parts means having to spend brain power on stuff that could be easy. A simple co-planar joint should be the DEFAULT. And then if I make more co-planar joints between two parts then the program should just be intelligent enough to merge them into one if that's what it takes.

this was very informative, thankyou, coming from a solidworks brain i couldnt figure out how to mate mold plates together and was using align when i should have been using joints will be interesting to try and get mold actions like sliding blocks moving on cam pins etc

I have always had problems understanding the different settings for joints and this help sort it out in my head. Now I just need to go and practice it to keep it in memory. Thanks!

Align is good to set a part to the same height as a other part and than reposition it somewhere else.

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing

It's awesome tip! Appreciate all the information! Congratulations!

Thank you so much, please make more tutorial about rig mechanic moving

Nice, but still, I would like to know, how to make two faces at an angle to each other.

There is nothing more infuriating for a Solidworks user than to try and figure out these goofy joints in Fusion. Makes me want to pull my hair out. Maybe this will help.

Day 124 of asking for Dark Mode in Fusion

Did you guys fix the bug where files are sometimes un-deletable because Fusion [mistakenly] thinks the files are referenced even though they definitely aren't and never have been? 3rd brand new $3K computer in a row..... If you're going to reinvent the wheel at least make it turn....

Stop turning anti aliasing on 10 times a day IT'S OFF FOR A FUCKING REASON