Organize and visualize assemblies

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Organize and visualize assemblies.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to

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restructure and assembly and use isolate.

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To get started in Fusion,

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we want to open the supply dataset,

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browser organized.

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F3D.

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Whenever we're dealing with assemblies,

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the organization of the browser and the timeline are going to be critical.

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As your designs become more complex,

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you add more and more components and more and more features,

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it can become an unwieldy process to find where things are in your design.

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So what we want to do now is talk a little bit about how we can organize a design.

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First,

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if we take a look at the timeline at the bottom,

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this is mainly created based on the organization and the design of your components.

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As components are created or added to a design,

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they'll be able to contain all of the features and sketches used within them.

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So activating a component will simplify the view of your timeline.

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But that's not always the case,

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especially when we're dealing with imported components,

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things that are commonly off the shelf components,

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purchased and downloaded from a manufacturer.

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So in some cases,

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you may find that taking a look at your timeline

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might be simplified by selecting,

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right clicking,

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and creating a group.

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Creating a group of features that represent a certain step in your process can be

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a great way to organize the timeline and keep it a little bit cleaner.

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But let's also go ahead and take a look at the browser.

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Currently,

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we've got the round air cylinder component,

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and then we've got a ball joint component,

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we've got a pivot bracket component,

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and then there are some individual components

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for various things.

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Right now,

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we want to simplify this assembly.

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We've got a rod end,

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which includes the Heim joint and the ball.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna create

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a new component called ball joint rod end.

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If we already have one under design,

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we can simply select the components

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and drag and drop them in

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to create a subassembly.

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If we have to create a new component,

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it's as easy as just selecting a new component

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and giving it a name.

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In this case,

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I'll call this rod end.

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The same process is true,

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we simply drag and drop the components into their main assembly.

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Next,

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we've got body

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and shaft.

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These belong to the round body air cylinder.

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So we're gonna select and drag these and place them in their main assembly.

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In this case,

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we now have our pivot bracket,

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our ball joint rod end,

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and the air cylinder.

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If we want to put all these together in a main assembly,

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we can rename this raw end and call this

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pneumatic assembly.

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Then we can select everything,

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drag it and drop it in the pneumatic assembly.

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Keep in mind that as we do this,

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we're adding more features to the timeline.

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And keep in mind that any joints may be broken and you should

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always go back and double check the mechanical motion of your assembly.

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Another great way to work with assemblies is to be able to isolate components.

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If we double click a portion of our design,

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the entire component will be highlighted.

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Then we'll have the ability to right click and isolate.

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We can also do this directly from the browser as well.

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Once we're done,

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we can right click and unisolate to bring all the rest of the components back.

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We also have the ability to right click

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and change the opacity of certain components.

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For example,

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the main body of the air cylinder.

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Let's go ahead and find the main body,

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right click and go to opacity control,

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making it 30%.

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If we needed to see inside of the air cylinder to verify the overall travel,

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we could do that by simply changing the opacity.

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We want to set it back,

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we'll just set it back to 100%.

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We can also go to our inspection tools and display component colors.

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This will help us easily identify features in the timeline,

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as well as components in the browser.

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For example,

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the ball is shown in yellow.

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It's shown in yellow on the screen,

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as well as a yellow bar next to it in the browser.

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There are many other ways that we can work with assemblies in fusion,

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but understanding some of the basic concepts such as restructuring your assembly,

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creating groups in the timeline,

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as well as using isolate and unisolate,

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can simplify your work on big complex assemblies.

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After you're done,

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feel free to save this,

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but keep in mind that tools like display component color cycling

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will be turned on for every open design.

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So if you're not using that,

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make sure that you do turn that off before moving on.