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Components are an important part of creating an assembly. Learn different methods for creating components.
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Transcript
00:03
In Fusion, there are several different methods for creating components in your assembly.
00:08
In addition to simply creating a new component from scratch,
00:12
you can create a component while creating a feature, and convert a body to a component.
00:17
From the File menu, click Open.
00:22
In the Open dialog, select Open from my computer, then navigate to and open the VBlock clamp.f3d Fusion archive file.
00:33
Save the design to your active project.
00:36
To simply create a new component right away, on the Design workspace toolbar, click the Assemble tab.
00:44
Then, from the Assemble group, click New Component.
00:49
Note that this tool creates a child of the component that is currently active in your Browser.
00:55
Remember that the top level of your design is, in its own way, a component.
01:00
In the New Component dialog, you can create a Standard or Sheet Metal component,
01:05
an External or Internal component, or an empty component, or you can create a component from existing bodies.
01:12
Keep this as Internal, name the component “Base” and select Activate.
01:19
This activates the component as soon as you create it.
01:23
Click OK.
01:25
All the components and bodies in the assembly fade, and if you expand the new Base folder in the Browser, you see an Origin.
01:34
So far, because there are no sketches or bodies, that is the only folder under the component.
01:40
In this example, you are just focusing on creating a component.
01:45
Next, create a component while creating a feature.
01:49
Activate the top-level assembly, then expand the Sketches folder and click the visibility icon to show Sketch1.
01:58
In Sketch1, you can see the profile of a pipe.
02:02
On the Solid tab, from the Create group, click Extrude, and then select the profile of the pipe.
02:11
Extrude it out about 80 millimeters to start, then set the Direction to Symmetric.
02:17
But rather than just creating a new body or joining or cutting it, in the Operation drop-down, select New Component.
02:24
When you click OK, in the Browser, the new pipe is generated as a new component that you can rename.
02:31
Now that it is a component, you can use tools like Joint or As-built Joint to make sure that it is properly located in the assembly.
02:39
When this design was started, there was a body for the V-block created at the top assembly level.
02:45
Because there are other components in this design,
02:48
you can use a joint between those components and this body, as long as you do not intend for the body to be able to move.
02:55
However, in this case, for the final method of component creation, convert the V-Block body to a component.
03:02
In the Browser, right-click the V-Block body and select Create Components from Bodies.
03:08
When you do this, you see that a V-block component has been created.
03:12
Expanding it, you see that there is an Origin folder and a Bodies folder.
03:17
The sketch is still resident at the top level of the design,
03:21
but now you can use the Joint tool or the As-built Joint tool to create a relationship between all the components in this design.
00:03
In Fusion, there are several different methods for creating components in your assembly.
00:08
In addition to simply creating a new component from scratch,
00:12
you can create a component while creating a feature, and convert a body to a component.
00:17
From the File menu, click Open.
00:22
In the Open dialog, select Open from my computer, then navigate to and open the VBlock clamp.f3d Fusion archive file.
00:33
Save the design to your active project.
00:36
To simply create a new component right away, on the Design workspace toolbar, click the Assemble tab.
00:44
Then, from the Assemble group, click New Component.
00:49
Note that this tool creates a child of the component that is currently active in your Browser.
00:55
Remember that the top level of your design is, in its own way, a component.
01:00
In the New Component dialog, you can create a Standard or Sheet Metal component,
01:05
an External or Internal component, or an empty component, or you can create a component from existing bodies.
01:12
Keep this as Internal, name the component “Base” and select Activate.
01:19
This activates the component as soon as you create it.
01:23
Click OK.
01:25
All the components and bodies in the assembly fade, and if you expand the new Base folder in the Browser, you see an Origin.
01:34
So far, because there are no sketches or bodies, that is the only folder under the component.
01:40
In this example, you are just focusing on creating a component.
01:45
Next, create a component while creating a feature.
01:49
Activate the top-level assembly, then expand the Sketches folder and click the visibility icon to show Sketch1.
01:58
In Sketch1, you can see the profile of a pipe.
02:02
On the Solid tab, from the Create group, click Extrude, and then select the profile of the pipe.
02:11
Extrude it out about 80 millimeters to start, then set the Direction to Symmetric.
02:17
But rather than just creating a new body or joining or cutting it, in the Operation drop-down, select New Component.
02:24
When you click OK, in the Browser, the new pipe is generated as a new component that you can rename.
02:31
Now that it is a component, you can use tools like Joint or As-built Joint to make sure that it is properly located in the assembly.
02:39
When this design was started, there was a body for the V-block created at the top assembly level.
02:45
Because there are other components in this design,
02:48
you can use a joint between those components and this body, as long as you do not intend for the body to be able to move.
02:55
However, in this case, for the final method of component creation, convert the V-Block body to a component.
03:02
In the Browser, right-click the V-Block body and select Create Components from Bodies.
03:08
When you do this, you see that a V-block component has been created.
03:12
Expanding it, you see that there is an Origin folder and a Bodies folder.
03:17
The sketch is still resident at the top level of the design,
03:21
but now you can use the Joint tool or the As-built Joint tool to create a relationship between all the components in this design.