Align 3D Scan to XYZ in CAD Fusion 360

Quick video on aligning a 3d scan into fusion 360 XYZ

*edit
In the latest update of fusion 360 a few things changed.
If you get an error about no alignments founds.
Right click on the Component then "unground from parent".
You should be able to continue and align the planes.

[LiveOff-Road]

Thank you for the tutorial. Well done, quick and to the point. You took enough time navigating menus so we don't have to back up numerous times to try to figure out what tools/operations you've used.

[RodrigoeBeta]

F*** sake! All this time I was trying to align things in Blender, but this is so much easier and quicker. Thanks!

[MichaelWoodrum]

Good deal. Quick enough. Better than the meshmixer alignment for sure. Less steps too.

[kalengray]

okay guys i got this to work finally. It seems to only work when you export the mesh as an STL then import it into a new drawing (capture design history has to be enabled to activate direct edit too.). Obviously unground from parent too.

[georgespapillon]

I just love this tutorial ! Thank you Jermaul !

[nuroo]

I'll have to try this with my new scanner. Thanks for sharing :)

[terranceroberts]

I keep getting “no alignment suggested by geometry could be found” when I try to align it………

[mitchimal]

Never played with direct edit. Didn't know it existed!

[DamonWolf]

Followed this step by step and I get a "No alignment suggested by geometry could be found". Stuck on this and dont know what to do.

[luftstolle]

Thanks. This is ridiculous amount of work to do to just get up to be up though. Why is the component in such a weird orientation to start with? The scanner knows perfectly well which way is up, it feels like something is very wrong somewhere.

[emin]

Hi there, When I try the same thing I get an error "no alignment suggested by geometry could be found ". Do you have any idea about how to fix it? Great video btw this method is 1000x better than calculating vectors and using Move :)

[dietersteinwender]

Thanks, Very helpful compressed summery if you know the meaning of each step in this procedure

[BoostWang]

I just tried this and the body doesn't follow the 3-point planes

[PURCELLYOUTUBE]

Does anyone know how to make this work? Even when I unground from parent, it still doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

[drpgfki]

"no alignment suggested by geometry could be found" what the heck am I doing wrong? Trying to import a no volume mesh from a 3D scan of a box.

[rifalse]

how to make a specific datum like point or axis for entties alignment?

[ShaunBennett]

is direct edit in the free version? not seeing it.

[RocketkidDesigns]

Can anyone confirm if this still works? It seems to be broken as of Aug 2024.