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Saving an Exploded Assembly

Saving an Exploded Assembly

Saving an Exploded Assembly

(OP)
Hi chaps (again!)

Thanks for the help everyone has given me. This forum rules! So, to my latest problem:

I'm experimenting with creating exploded assembly views. Creating them seems easy... SE is very nice in this regard.

The problem I'm having is SAVING the assembly in a state of the exploded condition. I.e. when I save the assembly, it doesn't save the exploded version.

Help!

Cheers,

Anthony

RE: Saving an Exploded Assembly

Hi,

SE will save the exploded view. Get into the environment you
once created the exploded view (ERA). Select 'exploded, xxxx'
(xxxx is your windowd UID) from the pull-down and voila there
it is... When deriving a draft from your assembly you may also
select this exploded view.

dy

RE: Saving an Exploded Assembly

(OP)
Hi Dy,

I'm not sure I understand...

Let's say I've just created the exploded view, and I want to save this assembly just as it is, so that when someone else opens the file, they will see the exploded view.

Could you explain a bit more?

Anthony



 

RE: Saving an Exploded Assembly

SE will allways save the assembly in the normal state that is
the non-exploded view. To view the exploded view after opening
an assembly one has to follow the steps I've outlined above
In the next version it might be possible to view the exploded
assembly without the need to switch to ERA but that's just
guessing
BTW: when the assembly is saved while in the ERA environment
that state (but not the exploded view) is presereved (ST1/ST2)

dy

RE: Saving an Exploded Assembly

Hi,

SE enables you to create exploded views of your assemblies. You can use the exploded views you define in the Assembly environment to create exploded assembly drawings in the Draft environment.
You can use the Display Configurations command on the Home tab to save the display configuration of an exploded view so you can recall it later. When you save an exploded view configuration, the set of explode operations used to create the exploded view is captured and saved. When you activate an exploded view configuration, the Explode PathFinder tab updates to list the captured operations for the current configuration.
You can also use exploded display configurations when creating drawings and technical documents of exploded assemblies.
Creating
If you need to create several exploded views of the same assembly, but with different parts displayed or the parts displayed in different positions, you can save additional exploded display configurations. After you have saved an exploded display configuration, you can use the Un-explode command on the Edit menu to reassemble the parts so you can start a new exploded view.

Assembly Display Configurations are only visual representations and are only available from the Draft environment and by activation the ERA (explode, render, animate environment) As far as I know
 

RE: Saving an Exploded Assembly

(OP)
Hi chaps,

Yeah I've sorted it.

The thing I didn't realise is that when you do View->Background (and switch off the Working layer), there are 4 sheets available (via tabs at the bottom of the main window). And hence one can then modify each sheet individually.

Done.

Thanks to all,

Anthony

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