From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
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Creating an explode view - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
Creating an explode view
- [Instructor] Explode Views can be very useful in SOLIDWORKS assemblies to help show any internal items within your products and can also help show the order of assembly. So let's take a look at how to generate an Explode View. Just right within my Assembly tab, I have the Explode View command here. So I can jump into my Explode View command. And it's really quite an easy process. It's quite user-friendly, really just click and drag. So I can click on whichever components I'd like to explode. So let's say maybe these four bolts here. And notice they're highlighting blue, showing that I've selected these four bolts here. And I'm getting one, two, three, four bolts shown here. And then really I can just click and drag on my triad here to explode these out. So let's try this. It looks like it's a little bit off the axis right now, so let's take a look and explode this out. Notice it's kind of coming out at a strange angle, so that doesn't look the best to me, so I might just Control + Z…
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