

In my example, I have Home selected (the little house icon above the view cube), which is the corner between TOP, FRONT, and RIGHT. The drawing you're going to create from this will have to use one of these corners or a flat side of the cube. NOTE: make sure to have the view set to one of the corners of the view cube in the upper right corner when you finalize your exploded view. This gives me a visual spacing that will make for a good 3D drawing. The two rails in my example are already spaced away from each other in the model, so I just have to select and Transform Components to move the bottom part down.

Repeat this step as necessary to create space between the parts the fit together. Right-click and Transform components to move both of them up so that there's space below the second part in the sequence. Select the first component you moved, then shift+select the next one you want to move. In this case, that's the Coin Cup (button shaped object in the picture above). Imaging you're taking your object apart and letting the parts float in the air in sequence.ĭrag the arrows on the manipulator and move the part so that it's above the next part to be shown below it. The idea is to move things on the outside to the furthest point in the exploded view, then move the inner parts so that they're closer to the center of the drawing. In the screenshot above it's been moved to 4.0.Ĭlick on the upper most (or outer most) component, then select Transform Component from the popup menu.

On the timeline at the bottom, move the vertical line to the right by a few seconds.
