{"id":104,"date":"2014-09-24T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/finishing-your-design-with-motion-study-analysis\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:42:09","slug":"finishing-your-design-with-motion-study-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/finishing-your-design-with-motion-study-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Your Design with Motion Study Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/127469i17656D9EBF4172A9\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"large.png\" title=\"large.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So you\u2019ve used all of the great sculpting and modeling tools in Fusion 360 to finish creating your assembly.&nbsp; That\u2019s great, but the job isn\u2019t done yet!&nbsp; To ensure that your design is going to work the way you want, you\u2019re going to need to set up a motion study to analyze the rotation and translation of the different parts in your assembly.&nbsp; Based on the joints between parts and limits defined, you will be able to quickly determine how your parts interact and avoid any unforeseen design issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help you learn how to do this, Sachlene Singh, Fusion 360 Technical Evangelist extraordinaire has created this simple 5 minute video to show you what you need to know.&nbsp; Here you will learn how to take the joints that you have applied to your parts and create limits to define their motion.&nbsp; In addition, you will learn a few key tips to help speed this process along and understand when these assignments will be copied over from part to part or need to be redefined.&nbsp; Check out her video below and begin taking those final steps towards model creation!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Easy Motion Study with Fusion 360\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JWJI8yzPUdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Motion.png\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/127829i9875A3B84A258F50\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Motion.png\" \/><\/P><P>If you already know how to create Fusion models and want to view the motion of your assembly, this is the tip for you!&nbsp; Check out how you can set up a motion study in just 5 minutes.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":15794,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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