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Creating a motion link

Creating a motion link

- [Instructor] Hi everyone, and welcome to another Fusion360 tips, tricks and techniques. Today, we are going to discover Motion Link. I have here a vise which is designed to hold the work pieces still during machining operations. The way this works is as I turn the handle the slide jaw should be moving as well. So notice here as I move our slide jaw, we should be seeing the handle turning simultaneously. And that means this components and their corresponding joints should be linked together. Now, this is where Motion Link comes into place. And whenever this dialog box appears, I'm just going to simply select Capture Position. So here we are prompted to select joints. Our target joint for this is Rev13 and our Slider4. With both of them selected, from here, we can define it settings. Let's say every turn at 360 degrees of Rev13, we are going to have a distance off one inch. From here we can animate to check, and let's…

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