From the course: Fusion 360: Designing for Metal
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Joining components - Fusion 360 Tutorial
From the course: Fusion 360: Designing for Metal
Joining components
- [Instructor] In a multi-component design, it's important to understand how those components relate to and connect to each other. Joints will help you establish what can move and what cannot. Joints also allow you to test how a design will fit together. These designs are often held together with fasteners, but rather than creating these fasteners, we'll download them from a well-known catalog. The process of applying joints is about removing degrees of freedom and applying connections between components. In some of the older CAD systems, you use a process called applying constraints. Constraints are based on geometry and remove degrees of freedom slowly. In Fusion 360, we use a process called applying joints. Joints are more theoretical, and can be applied to multiple elements on a face or even a single point on an edge from three different directions, and they can remove up to all six degrees of freedom at one time. Before we begin applying joints, we'll pick one of the components…
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