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Review the motion of an assembly by exercising specific joints or using specific joints to drive the assembly.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
2 min.
Tutorial resources
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Transcript
00:03
When designing a mechanism in Fusion,
00:05
you can animate individual joints or the entire model to demonstrate your design to others or to test it as you work.
00:12
On the canvas, you see a hand-powered drill press.
00:16
This is a gear-driven system, where a hand wheel is used to crank the drill, and a series of gears create a four-to-one ratio:
00:23
four spins of the drill for every turn of the hand wheel.
00:27
Expand the Joints folder, where you see a large number of joints applied to this mechanism.
00:34
These include revolute joints, rigid joints, and a slider joint.
00:39
By clicking and dragging part of the gear train or the hand wheel, you can observe how the mechanism drives the drill.
00:46
If you click the handle and drag to move it, you can see how the drill bit is pressed down into the material.
00:53
In the Browser, locate the main gear revolute joint.
00:56
As you see in this list, any joint can be renamed.
01:00
Right-click Main gear and select Animate Joint to view a preview of this specific joint, similar to the one provided when the joint was applied.
01:09
Press Esc to stop the animation.
01:12
Right-click Main gear again, and this time, select Animate Joint Relationships.
01:17
This animates the selected joint and any other associated joints, enabling you to observe the connections between them.
01:24
Press Esc again to stop the animation, and then Revert the position.
01:29
In this assembly, you can also exercise the drill shaft, and by turning it, see how the entire mechanism operates.
01:37
When designing a mechanism,
01:39
animating the model is a quick way to demonstrate to others how your mechanism works, and also to test it yourself.
Video transcript
00:03
When designing a mechanism in Fusion,
00:05
you can animate individual joints or the entire model to demonstrate your design to others or to test it as you work.
00:12
On the canvas, you see a hand-powered drill press.
00:16
This is a gear-driven system, where a hand wheel is used to crank the drill, and a series of gears create a four-to-one ratio:
00:23
four spins of the drill for every turn of the hand wheel.
00:27
Expand the Joints folder, where you see a large number of joints applied to this mechanism.
00:34
These include revolute joints, rigid joints, and a slider joint.
00:39
By clicking and dragging part of the gear train or the hand wheel, you can observe how the mechanism drives the drill.
00:46
If you click the handle and drag to move it, you can see how the drill bit is pressed down into the material.
00:53
In the Browser, locate the main gear revolute joint.
00:56
As you see in this list, any joint can be renamed.
01:00
Right-click Main gear and select Animate Joint to view a preview of this specific joint, similar to the one provided when the joint was applied.
01:09
Press Esc to stop the animation.
01:12
Right-click Main gear again, and this time, select Animate Joint Relationships.
01:17
This animates the selected joint and any other associated joints, enabling you to observe the connections between them.
01:24
Press Esc again to stop the animation, and then Revert the position.
01:29
In this assembly, you can also exercise the drill shaft, and by turning it, see how the entire mechanism operates.
01:37
When designing a mechanism,
01:39
animating the model is a quick way to demonstrate to others how your mechanism works, and also to test it yourself.
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