Joints Tool Guides and Types

Joints Tool Guides

The following tool guides are available:

Secondary face

The second side will be automatically suggested, but you can choose to make a different selection if needed. Select this tool and select the second face.

Joint Types

The following joint types are available:

Fixed	Movement is prevented in any direction, including rotations.
Hinged	Only applicable to cylindrical or flat surfaces. For cylindrical surfaces, the axis is along the line of the cylinder. For flat surfaces, you specify an axis that lies in the plane of the selected surface passing through the centroid of the surface. The support is free to rotate about that axis.
Spherical	Only applicable to spherical surfaces.Translational movement is prevented.