Collapsing An Exploded View

[Anonymous]

I have dragged components from an assembly to achieve an exploded view of the assembly. I would now like to collapse the components back to its original assembled state. I did not use the animate feature. All components were dragged using the Move command and I dragged them apart manually. Is there a  way to collapse them back to their original position in an easy command?

[jhackney1972]

The answer depends on the timing in your design.  If you moved/dragged the components around and you have not saved you can use the Revert Position command.  If you saved after moving them around you are out of luck and will have place them back into position manually.  If you had assembly joints in place, and just Suppressed them all to move your components, you can just unsuppress the joints to put it all back.  If you have not saved after moving them you can use the Undo and Undo List command to put them back, again too late if you saved your assembly.  If you used the Move command entirely, you can move your timeline back before the moves or delete the moves entirely.  If you have not saved your assembly, close it without saving and reopen it.  The answer is it depends the state of your model. 

[jeff_strater]

a few minor clarifications: If you are in a parametric design, and you have moved Components, you will see the "Capture Position" UI in the tool bar:

The button on the right is "Revert", which @jhackney1972 referred to in his reply.  If you have not done a Capture Position (the button on the left), you can Revert to the unmoved state.   This is true, even if you have saved the design (Capture pending is not cleared by Save).  If you have done a capture, it will show in the Timeline:

and deleting this feature should put components back into their former locations