Exercise duration: ~15 minutes

Practice: Assemble components with joints

Finish the tea kettle assembly and position each
component with joints.

o Assemble components with joints.

Learning objectives:

● Apply an As-Built Joint.

● Apply a Joint.
● Align the angle of a Joint origin.

Tea kettle assembled with joints

1. File > Open > Open from my Computer >

select the Assemble components with
Joints.f3z from the included data set >
Open.

Note: Fusion 360 assembly files (.f3z)

may take a minute to process in the
cloud.

Figure 1. Upload a Fusion 360 file via the

Open dialog.

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2. Use an As-Built Joint to define the
relative motion between the Wooden
Handle component and the metal
handle.

Figure 2. Wooden handle in the tea kettle

assembly.

3. Hide the Tea Kettle Base sub-assembly.

Use a joint to position the Knob
component on the Kettle Lid
component. The center holes should be
aligned.

Figure 3. The Knob component rests on the

same plane as the kettle lid component.

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4. Use a joint to position the Kettle Lid
component on top of the Tea Kettle
Base sub-assembly.

Note: Turn the visibility of the Tea

Kettle Base sub-assembly back on.

Figure 4. The lid will rest on the top of the

Tea Kettle Base.

5. Align the three vent holes in the

direction of the wooden handle.

Figure 5. The three vent holes face the

wooden handle.

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