Lesson 11 – Detecting Interference, Editing and Exploding the Assembly and Creating Multiple
Assembly Configurations
Section IV – Modeling Assemblies 11.5 The Exploded Assembly
Right-click Default and select New Exploded View to get the
menu in Figure 11.3.
Step 88: Click on one assembly component to show the manipulator
handle.
Click and drag the handle in the direction you wish to
explode.
Release the mouse button to release the part.
Repeat for every part until you have the fully exploded
configuration that you want. See Figure 11.4.
Notice that you can drag any number of components
simultaneously by first clicking to make them active, and then
dragging the manipulator handle.
Step 89: After saving the exploded configuration, it is possible to
toggle between the exploded and normal configuration by right-
clicking on AssemblyConfiguration and changing between
Collapse and Explode.
Step 90: Right-click again on AssemblyConfiguration
and select Animate collapse or Animate explode.
The menu in Figure 11.5 will appear to allow
the user to control the animation. Table 11.1
shows what options are available.
Figure 11. 4 – Exploded Assembly
Figure 11. 3 – Creating the
Exploded View
Figure 11. 5 – Explode Animation Menu