Error Message: No available components for exploding.

[Anonymous]

I have an assembly full of components and sub-assemblies, but when I go to explode it, it says "No available components for exploding." Why is this happening? I was thinking it was because I didn't have any joints built in. I added an As-Built Joint in, and the popup still happened.

I need the exploded view to make a technical drawing to show assemble directions. If there's another way to accomplish this, that would be great!

http://a360.co/2plAibJ

[sharathnaik33]

All you have to do is drag and select the component and then use the explode feature.

[Anonymous]

I want to Auto Explode them, though. Are you saying my only option is to
manually explode it?

[sharathnaik33]

No, just select the whole model and press the auto Explode button.

[Anonymous]

I first just selected the components by dragging my mouse over the model, which didn't work. I tried selecting them by clicking on the top part of the tree, then the next one down labeled "Components", and finally it worked when I clicked on the next one down in the Browser tree.

Now I'm trying to fix the auto-explode, and Restore Home won't work. Then I'm trying to manually explode pieces to fix it, and in order to move the sub-assemblies, I have to click on each component within it. That means I have to click on 45 components to move 9 sub-assemblies that didn't move with the other 16 identical sub-assemblies. Then when I try to manually explode, they won't move, but they will move when I transform them. Then if I want to transform the sub-assembly, it won't give me the drag arrows if I click on the sub-assembly, but if I click on its components, then I get them.

Is Fusion 360 just not reading my components correctly? Or is it just this terrible?

[wesley.cantarino]

In MODEL

Select your body for explosion and click in Assemble -> new componet

In animation

Select Component and click in explode.

🙂

[Anonymous]

Got it working for me thanks for taking the time to post.