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Building an exploded view for an assembly drawing

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Building an exploded view for an assembly drawing

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- [Narrator] Exploded views really make it very easy for a user to understand which components go into an assembly and how that assembly is put together. Now, right now we've already got a pretty good drawing. We've got a Bill of Materials, we've got some balloons. Now, it'd be really great to be able to add in an exploded view, so let's go over to the actual assembly to create that exploded view. So I'm going to go ahead and choose this view right here and click on Open Assembly. Once I've got the assembly opened up, let's go ahead and create that exploded view. You can do that under Assembly, come over here to Exploded View. Alright, so the first thing I want to do is choose which components we want to explode out. So I'm going to go ahead and choose this component right here which automatically selects that entire assembly. Now, I'm going to go ahead and just pull that out to the side. If you want to just do that one step, you can also explode it in other directions or spin it…

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