Discover the intricacies of making adjustments to a Fusion model, specifically during the design phase, as we delve into changes to the Neck component. Unpack the step-by-step process of editing features, adjusting diameters, and editing sketches to achieve the desired modifications.
Key Insights
- The article provides a comprehensive guide to activating a component in a Fusion model, where the focus is solely on the Neck component, graying out all other components.
- Specific adjustments to the diameter of the Neck component are explored, including how to edit the feature. The process is detailed from the initial selection of the tube, to the final result of the widened tube.
- The article further details the steps to adjust associated features such as rings. It provides two methods for locating the ring sketches in the design history or within the neck component itself and highlights the importance of locking the axis point before making changes.
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Making changes to a Fusion model is very common, especially during the design phase. Let's go ahead and make a change to our Neck component. We'll go to our project browser, look for Neck, and click Activate Component.
This activates the component by graying everything else out, showing only that component. It also adjusts our design history to only show all of the operations we completed while making this Neck. So what would adjust the diameter of this Neck component right here? We can look in our history, and we can also select it.
So first, I click on it. You can see I select it. It turns blue, and it highlights in the design history what activity I did to create that Neck.
And it shows us a tube. We have a tube right here. We can select it, right-click on it, and click Edit Feature.
It's the third operation we did in our design history. We'll click Edit Feature, and we're right back to editing the tube. We get the Edit Feature window, and we can change the section size.
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Right now, it's set to 30. Let's change it to 40, quite a bit wider, and go ahead and click OK. And we'll notice that it updates our tube, but nothing else.
That's because everything we've created is semi-independent. It doesn't relate to the other items, which is a good thing sometimes. Sometimes we do want things to relate.
We can go ahead and change everything else that is needed. Number two is this connection. We have this connector piece right here, and it flows up to the tube, and there is a connection there.
And right now, it's not functioning. We want to go down to our design history and look at where that happened. It's the last operation we did.
We created a tube right here that kind of shows the diameter of that connection. So it's that final tube we created. We'll right-click in our design history and click Edit Feature.
It was also set to 30. We can go ahead and set that to 40 and click OK. And now those features come together nicely.
But we'll also notice that our rings are no longer the correct diameter, so we need to adjust those. Now we have two ways to go about it. We can find the ring sketches in our design history, or we can expand the neck component, look for the appropriate sketches here, and we can make those edits here.
We have the lower ring profile, so ring lower profile. We will select that, right-click. We can also get to Edit Sketch here.
Or we can select it in the browser simply to highlight it. We'll see it in the design history. We can right-click here and also click Edit Sketch.
Either way, we're getting to that sketch, and we can make our changes. Now we have a couple of dimensions here from our original sketching, and if we change them right now, it won't work. Don't follow me, but I'll show you what happens.
If I add the five millimeters here, we'll take this to 23. You can see it adjusts the wrong way. It moves the axis point over, so we don't want to do that.
We first have to anchor this, so we will select our center line, right-click, and select Fix Unfix. You'll notice it changes to like a green color, and it's now fixed. It won't move.
Now we can click this dimension, the 18, and add five millimeters, so that'd be 23, and click Enter, and it will adjust that sketch to the right. Now if that doesn't work for you, the alternative is to go ahead and re-sketch. You can delete the sketch, redraw it in the correct place, which is five millimeters up, and then click Finish Sketch, and there is that lower ring corrected.
Now the upper ring is still off, so in our sketches, we have our ring profile upper. We can select that, right-click, Edit Sketch. Again, we'll select our center line, right-click, and select Fix Unfix to lock it down.
Now if we double-click our dimension here, we can change it. 18 plus 5 would be 23. Enter, and Finish Sketch, and that upper ring is now adjusted as well.
We can see the result. We now have a much wider neck tube.
