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Exploded Assemblies

Exploded Assemblies

With Fusion 360's ability to import assemblies from other CAD systems (actually I have only tried it on Catia V5 assemblies so far), a very useful feature, especially for some of our non-design users at work, would be the ability to explode and unexplode assemblies.  Various CAD and Visualization systems do this or have done this in the past, with varied success.

 

A manual process to explode an assembly component by component by selecting each component (or group of components) and then the being able to control the direction/path and distance to move them would be good.  An automatic explode command of an assembly would be even better, especially for the users that were not as familiar with CAD systems, but need to visually understand and sometimes analyze aspects of the assemblies.

 

Although an accurate automatic explode would be great, I know it is significantly more difficult to program such a feature.  Perhaps a semi-automatic explode feature to start with, that would perform an automatic explode by trying to discern the correct direction for each of the components based upon its geometry and positional relationships with other components, and then let the user adjust and/or reposition components to better locations.

 

Of course, after saving an exploded assembly, you would also want the ability to toggle back and forth the exploded an unexploded positioning of the assembly components.  Animation, staged and timed explosions, and more complex motions such as rotations and multi-directional paths would be icing on the cake.

 

4 Comments
JohnnyDR
Contributor

 

Here is a freely available link to a PDF document describing "Exploding Assemblies" using Siemens Solid Edge software, which is representative of the kind of capabilities I would like to see in Fusion 360:

http://support.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/training/se/en/ST4/pdf/spse01691-s-1040_en.pd...

 

 

Of course Autodesk Inventor has exploded assemblies capabilities as well as demonstrated in this video.

 

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

I'm at the point of a current project where an exploded assembly would really help for presentation purposes. It's not a horribly large number of components so I just saved to a different file and manually adjusted their positioning into my own exploded view.

 

Being able to toggle back and forth from exploded to to assemly view would be a great feature though and save many of us from having to mess around in Inventor.

SymmWatch
Participant

I would like to be able to explode an assembly too, chosing on which axis the explode should occur. My assembly will have >100 parts so exploding by manually moving parts would be tedious.

herzinj
Alumni
Status changed to: Implemented
 

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