External Axis Wizard

I am doing a simulation for a spot welding gun. There are two different
guns, one is a linear gun and the other is a scissor like gun with a
rotational axis. I successfully made the linear gun into a mechanism
and then added it as an external axis with the External Axis Wizard.
However, when I try to do the same thing with the scissor gun, it
doesn’t recognize it as a mechanism. Does anyone know why this might be? The only difference is the joint type.