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Evilstib

Project Planning Guidance

Question

Creating a personal project & new to fusion. Thought I needed 3 components, now realizing that joints require separate components to work, so I need 5:

https://preview.redd.it/fafzn150wp0h1.png?width=2064&format=png&auto=webp&s=87ced7396f4af8b58d9b6593048942567ed77c89

Orientation:

  • 1 is a moving "part" of 2.
  • 2 fits inside of 3
  • 3 magnet attaches to 4
  • 4 slides in and out of 5 (with a screw to fix once it's at the required length)

I tried creating a new component and dragging the bodies/sketches to it, but it leaves the timeline steps with the old component.

  1. Is there a clean way to move things around?

  2. If I can't move around, do I need to restart or do I just not use joints for this one?

  3. Any good videos on component / orientation planning? Some of my parts are meant to fit inside of each other, and I'm drawing them facing each other, which is proving to be a pain in the arse rotating/aligning. Guidance would be appreciated!

Posted May 12, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

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