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Don’t worry! I’m only creating exploded views of assemblies! Creating an exploded view of an assembly can be very useful when providing information on how to put all the parts of a product together. It can be animated in SW, or inserted in a drawing document, together with a list of parts or bill of materials. The procedure to create an exploded view of an assembly isn’t really complicated. In a nutshell, you just click on the components and drag them to the desired location, but I’ve found that merely dragging the parts often doesn’t produce the results I expected, especially in assemblies that have components that have been placed on an angle, rather than along a horizontal or vertical axis. The Essentials manual suggested a solution by dragging and dropping the Triad (that is used to drag the components when creating an exploded view) to a different location in the same component.  I found out that I could also align the Triad to the components origin, and that it works like magic, particularly when the components have been mated with a concentric mate between them. This also results in straight and smooth exploded sketch lines between the components that have been dragged this way. I created a small video to illustrate all this, since I think it’s easier to show it than it is to write about it. I promise you this video is much clearer than the last one, but if you have any trouble seeing it as it appears here, you can always download the WMV file. Download ExplodedView.wmv

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