Clearest explanation. It is quite simple. I use three other cad programs and I did not git the joint premise. Now I get it. Thank you!

excellent Lars - you've basically become my sole resource for Fusion 360 lessons...you're all I need :-)

Lars, that was awesome! Keep up the good work.

valuable contribution as usual. thanks Lars

I am coming from SolidWorks and this video really was what I needed to get how joints work in Fusion. It's so much better, incredible.

Lar's your stream was very appealing today as usual with all of yours. It covered the things I'm mostly interested in.

Thanks Lars for all of your Fusion 360 videos. I have been trying to learn as much about 3D modeling as time will allow since receiving a 3D printer for Christmas. I want to use my printer to create solutions to everyday problems and not just printing other peoples' stuff off sites like Thingiverse. You have helped me a great deal towards that goal.

Awesome Lars, thanks for all these educational KZfaq videos!!!

I should have watched this yesterday. I made the piece I wanted to but it took a lot longer than necessary. Good stuff

Another great great video Lars. Time well spent. I'm pouring through these before I subscribe. I feel I stand a good chance to hit the ground running once I get signed up for the software. If I didn't have 2D experience, I don't believe the videos would make a ton of sense....... but this is all quite clear and straightforward, just seemingly endless in possibility. So, I've got some projects on the front burner and videos like these keeping this goal warm on the back burner. Thanks.

Great job! I really appreciate the more technical content. I watch the recordings of the live stream and find myself getting frustrated at some of the technique repetition at the end of each of the segments and find myself fast forwarding to get to the next tip / technique as if I didn't fully grasp it or missed it I could always rewind. This is a minor thing and I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up!

Lars: Another great video. Keep it up and I just might learn Fusion 360!

The technique of using a "layout solid" is something I have to try myself on some future project. Awesome idea thanks for the excellent video. Despite what some are saying I am very happy with the "slow speed" of your videos because it gives my brain a chance to absorb what is being shown. Also what makes fusion so awesome, it does not have such a long history and therefore it is full of fresh ideas! Nice.

i know how to use joints, but these basic things came out of the box. well, thanks Mr.Christensen

Hi Lars, excelente! Bravo!

I'm really like this software... and off course your videos... (I'm From Brasil and i don't speak english so well..sorry for this) I'm a Tooling designer and I have been using this software just about couple of week, but I'm really liking the way of this software Think up. I'm migrate from Solidworks and, off course, I find some points that I prefer, but I have no resistance about it, and I'm really enjoying your videos, they are very good ... if you have surface tips, for example how to extrapolate, trim and things like that, will be very good for my type of use. thank you very much...

good job👍👍👍👍

27:30 I nearly checked my laptop across the room.... I kept hitting ctrl+c and then ctrl+"z".......... Could not figure out why I got no paste...... after my 4th try I hunted and picked the keyboard like a 3rd grader.... saw what my fingers were doing and poked myself in the left eye for good measure. Hopefully someone reads then and gets a good laugh at my expense.. I did. Thanks Lars for what you do.

Great like always. Thx.

32:04 solidworks can do this, but I agree the lock mate is no match for the rigid joint.

fantastic! thank you!!

I can see how joints work well for simple geometries. But from what I've experienced so far, the simplicity quickly turns to being cumbersome and unintuitive when I have complex geometries and multiple components. My problem has been that the components I work with often do not have nice sharp edges and corners, and being restricted to using joint origin points as opposed to surfaces for mates makes it tricky. I also have to deal with odd positioning (e.g., clamps in various orientations around a part on a mill table). I have recently been working on a setup for a mill, and after a few hours of trial and error and several tutorial videos later I was no closer to getting this thing put together, which would have taken me all of 2 minutes in SolidWorks or NX. I finally got it to work by only using planar joints and restricting degrees of freedom a couple at a time, a very roundabout way to get the same result as in SolidWorks. It's worth considering that there might be a reason the other major CAD systems do mates/constraints/etc. a certain way. Restricting degrees of freedom one or two at a time is simple, quick, and intuitive. And it stays simple, quick, and intuitive regardless how complex the components are or how many components there are. Don't get me wrong, I really like using Fusion for the most part, having come from many years of Mastercam, Solidworks, and NX. I think they took a big step backwards on this though.

Very useful man! Thanks! ;)

Good work Lars.

great presentation!

As usual it is perfect tutorial.

Mates are way easier and are more intuitive.

Awesome

Wow! This is one of the most important explains. I am also an former Solidworks user, and now i work only with Fusion 360. But before this vVdeo i never understand the Joints. It is very powerfull. Many thanks for this great explain. Please explain how we can set limits on the hinge in your wooden box lid. It is time for an second advanced Joints livestream (maybe) :-) Best regards Remo

I need Inventor and Fusion to have a baby. Coming from Inventor I have to agree that Fusion is much more streamline and user friendly and are perhaps looking at things fundamentally from a better angle. But Inventor gives me much more control over the drawings, bill of materials, reuse of parts, and large assemblies. I also really need something similar to iParts in Fusion. Overall the Fusion's user interface is really refreshing and a treat to use. Thanks for the good videos.

Key concept stated at 11:18 was my lightbulb moment.

Lars thank you so much for your videos. The problem I am having right now is taking my sheetmetal designs and exporting flat patterns as a dxf so that I can use on my Plasma table. A video on this would be great.

Break through thank you, just what I needed on my modeling journey, than you.

A little confusing to newbie...is there a syllabus available with tutorial links (in order: 1,2,3,...) I could follow to walk thru step-by-step to get up to speed with F360?...really like your teaching method so far...regards...

Hi Lars, I would like to suggest a different microphone. Sometimes your voice is muffled (and I am loosing my hearing) so I miss the highs and lows and sometimes I miss details. Also, there is a bit of an echo. Maybe carpet the walls lol? I really appreciate your videos. I always recommend them to my colleges Yours are the best.

Lars: Does the built in joint feature allow the movement or editing of the coins used for alignment? Using your videos like a Kolledge Course! Great work, thanks CA

Every tutorial explains the same “joint” process over snd over. A cylinder in a cylinder or a face to face or corner to corner is all fine and easy. However, for engineers working with clearances, we’re not always dealing with cylinders. What would be nice to know is... say you have a rectangle bar stock sliding back and forth inside a rectangular/broached opening. In Solidworks, all i need to do is select all 4 sides of what i want aligned and hit mate. It will center that part. I then do the same for the other 4 surfaces and it centers again. Now i have my part centered with even gap all around even if the gap one way is not equal to the other way. How do i do that in Fusion? Cheers, Ken

This is all fine and dandy with square corners but I'm having huge difficulties Jointing oval objects with no corners.

Can you make a video on modal analysis, there are only few short video available on the net. Btw great job, brought back the interest of design and analysis in me.

Excellent video Lars. How did you know I was battling with joints?

Hi Lars, thanks for the video great tutorials, am I missing something though, when I follow along your rectangle look solid, one of mine is transparent. sorry if this question is an obvious one I should have spotted.

Lars: I have a question concerning bodies and components. What are bodies for? What use does it have? The reason I ask is that you can't create a joint with a body, you have to convert the body to a componet. So WHY have bodies at all and not just have them all be components from the get go? I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to Fusion360 but maybe you can explain this to me. Thanks. Liker dine videoer, fortsett med det. Hilsner fra Norge;)

It is a pretty genius system but it does suck when working a lot with aluminium profiles as they tend to have rounded edges. And since you can't joint round edges properly, it becomes quite tedious (not to mention imprecise) to mess around with all sorts of manual offsets. I wish Fusion would allow is both approaches when it comes to the freedoms.

i m comming from years of autocad learning but still get confused sometimes

Nice tutorial. What's your solution for mating coils to other surfaces? Specifically, the centre axis of a coil at the end face to another...?

how did I miss this. Sorry Lars :)

Everybody is showing these simple geometries in their tutorials for f360. What if I don't want to make an assembly that looks like the toys of a 2 year old? I miss functions like tangential, concentric, coincident etc. To position parts in a way that is not what the program is guessing. Sometimes this function might work great, but if f360 doesn't know what I want to do it's just very frustrating. Another thing is that parts are just floating around after I assemble them and I have to glue them together in a rigid group which is absolutely horrible from a construction standpoint. Whenever you want to change sth. pieces just stay where they have been and you gotta do everything from scratch again... If someone has help for those struggles, would be awesome

So how can i mate a flat component to a cylinder of an other component? Now i used align and a tangent plane and then grounded the component.

Joints are awful. I hate them. After 18 months with Fusion 360 - joints are the reason that will likely go back to Solidworks. Fusion 360 is fantastic in so many ways and joints just kills it for me.

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I got the Joins from different side flip the part to the left on X Y Axises and up side down??

Hi Lars great tutorial ...could you do the same tutorial for inventor please we have potentially hundreds of Phd students and post Docs who would really benefit from your efforts . Thanks Robb

Hello sir , I made an simple engine and i made an cam shaft which pushes the valves down and up using enable contact sets and create contact sets and it is working but the laptop lags when the cam touches the valve to push it down , its all working perfectly but lag when they touch . my laptop is good , no problem . what to do , ? please help me ?

What about Tangent mate? What is the equivalent in Fusion Nice webinar

Coming from 20 years of Solidworks - not quite sorted on the F360 way. I just want two surfaces to be parallel, but there is no parallel..... While I am sure it all works.....I hate it right now.

Came for weed stayed for CAD education

IM REALLY REALLY ANGRY AT JOINTS

If your model in Inventor blows up when you change the parts, you’ve made the joints/mates in the wrong way. Top down modeling, constraints to work features instead of faces and edges and you don’t have a problem. Try to make joint to a work feature in F360 - you cannot. So you actually cannot make the joints as early as you can do in Inventor. Still like the video, though. Joints are hard to get your head around if you’ve been in Inventor world for at least a decade...:)

How can I mate two planes?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you would think that something this fucking simple would be so fucking obvious

Nope. I like smokin' my bowls...😎

i dunno man i kinda prefer dabs.

I'm more of a bowl man myself.

Hey Lars, how about suggesting to the guys that there be some extra controls over the push-pull/extrude "operation" setting? What I mean is, when you're extruding stuff and all the pieces need to be new bodies or new components but they are touching already existing bodies or components, Fusion automagically sets it to "JOIN". That ain't cool. I find that 90% of the time JOIN is NOT what I want. Instead I have to click to change it every single time. I saw you deal with this during this video. I want some extra controls over the defaults for this. Don't you?

You know what, I'm just constantly repeiting one question in ny head "WHY! WHY! fucking why are they decided that this is better way for mates?"

You explained it well, but this is such a stupid way to do anything more complex than basic examples. Inventor-style mates are so much better and more intuitive.

Thats alot of sales bs

This is so rubbish. show me a simple way to mount a cylinder in a V block....

joinTs, not JOiiiiins. (Why do the DAN-ish always put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLABLe?)