Import and locate work holding devices

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important locate work holding devices.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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import a cad file and locate digital work holding

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Infusion 3 60. We want to carry on with our mounting blocks set up.

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If you had any difficulties,

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you can upload the supply data set mounting block setup dot F three Z.

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It's important to note that this is an F three Z archive

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file because it does contain the model of the Haas VF one.

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At this point we want to insert advice that can be used for setup in order to do this.

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We need to go back to our design work space.

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There are plenty of vices inside of the fusion 3 60 samples library.

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We're going to first take a look at using the 050404

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Vice with hard jaws we used inside of our assembly lesson.

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We're going to drag and drop this directly into our mounting block setup.

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We're going to use some basic move copy to rotate it 90°

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And then we want to rotate it another 90° in the opposite direction, about the Y.

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And then we want to position it roughly in the correct orientation.

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What we want to do is make sure that our part is going to be about centered on the vice.

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You may need to zoom in just a little bit.

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It doesn't have to be perfect but we want to get it close

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and then we're going to pull the vice to again close to the correct location.

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Doesn't have to be perfect. We just want to get it close.

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The next thing that we want to do is we want to make sure that we select OK.

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And now our vice is positioned inside of this assembly.

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It's important to note that the vice itself is still

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linked externally to the design in our data panel.

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Generally with work holding, I like to right click and break the link between these.

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It's important to note that breaking the

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link isn't strictly required but any changes to

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the vice inside this design will affect the one inside of our data panel.

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Once we break the link, we now have a copy of it inside of our current design.

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It's important to note that our part is listed in here as a body, not a component,

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which means that it's not able to freely move around.

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The vice however, can move around.

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Let's go ahead and revert the vice position.

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Also note inside of here that we've got stock that represents the solid body

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of stock and there's a fixture plate that can be used for operation too.

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The first thing that we want to do is make sure

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that the vices in the correct position to do this.

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I'm going to go to modify and I'm going to select my align tool.

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There are multiple ways that we can do this but a

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line allows us to select our components and specifically component faces.

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Going to select the face of my vice,

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ensuring that I'm not snapping to any of the coordinate points.

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Then I'm going to rotate and select the side face of my part.

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This is going to move the entire vice so that those two faces are touching.

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In this case I'm not going to capture the position but I'm going to say, okay,

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right click and repeat a line

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next. I want to take the bottom of my part

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and I want to select the top of the vice. It's going to move this into position.

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Once again, I'm not going to capture the position. I'm simply going to say, okay

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next I want to use move copy.

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I want to make sure that this part is positioned a certain height above the table.

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Now, if this model happened to have parallels in it,

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then we could use those as our height reference.

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But in this case I'm going to use move copy.

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I'm going to select components and move the entire vice.

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I'm going to select the vertical axis in this case. Why?

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And I'm going to use this to pull my part down a specific amount.

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We're going to machine the entire outside of the part in the second operation.

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So in this case I just need to make sure that

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it's a height that can be referenced from a parallel.

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In this case we're going to go inch and a half.

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But note that our body for stock is exactly a machine to the bottom of that part.

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Also note that the body for the stock is not at the correct location on the vice jaw.

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So we need to make sure that we adjust for that as well.

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We're going to say okay to that inch and a half.

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Then one more time we're going to go into modify and align.

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At this point we're going to select the side face

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of our stock and the side face of our jaw.

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And this point we want to capture our position.

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We didn't capture the position on all the subsequent steps because

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it would create multiple capture positions inside of our timeline.

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We want to make sure that we only do it once. That way.

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We prevent multiple capture positions from being in there.

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In this stage,

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we also want to expand to make sure that we find the component

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for the base of our vice right click and that we ground it.

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This means that anything that was a rigid groups such as

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the rigid portion of the vice is not going to move.

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However, the sliding jaw is free to move

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if we want to position that properly, we can also use modify and align,

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select the face,

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rotate around and select the side of our stock and capture its position.

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This is still free to move, but now it's in the correct orientation,

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making sure that we can use it as an obstacle in our setup.

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Now that we have this set, let's go ahead and do a quick save

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and we also want to make sure we understand there

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are other locations in which we can find different fixtures.

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We want to make sure that we go into our camp samples library

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And note that inside camp samples we have a folder called work holding.

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If we double click on work holding,

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you can see that there are plenty of different

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types of work holdings that you can look for.

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For example if we go into orange vice,

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there are a couple of different work holdings that we can use.

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These are going to be set up in fusion 360 so

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they should all have joints and be ready to move.

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However they will be read only so you will need to save them in your project location.

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We're not going to be using those as this model was downloaded directly from the

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website and is a curt Vice.

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The next thing that we want to do is navigate back to our manufacturer workspace.

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We already have our host machine selected but now that we have a vice,

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we want to make sure that we edit our setup.

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So in op one we're going to right click and select. Edit.

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The first thing that I want to do is I want to go to my stock definition and I'm

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going to change stock to from solid because we

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now know that this model has a solid body.

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We're going to go into the solid bodies folder and select stock

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next on the set up.

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We want to make sure that we go into the model and

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make sure that we are using the part for our model.

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Then we want to select fixture and for our

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fixture we're going to include portions of the Vice.

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We don't need to include all the hardware but it is a good idea for us to include at

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least the different jaws of the Vice and the base

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so that we can see its position on the machine

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next for part position.

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We want to make sure that we do rotate this around and adjust its vertical position.

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We're going to set the z distance at zero.

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And because we have the Vice selected notice

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that it automatically snaps back down to the table

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from here, we can select OK. And now we've got our new setup.

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Let's go ahead and rotate this around

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and note that we now have our Vice on the table and we do have our part in the vice.

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We could adjust its position a little bit more.

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You can see that it's not located properly.

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So you can always go back in and go to your setup right, click and select. Edit.

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Go to your position and inside of this view we can rotate around and we can move our

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y position of the Vice so that it does line up with the slots on the table.

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Once we're happy with its position we can say okay,

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and once again rotate back around.

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Everything looks pretty good from here,

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so I'm going to double click my mouse wheel to center to view.

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I'm going to go to a front view,

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which allows us to see the front of the machine and

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make sure that I do save this before moving on.