Ballooning an assembly apart

peter_hall

I have a project where I imported a step file (16 parts). I needed to ballon parts away from the assembled state which I did with copy transform and then set distances on either x , y or z axis at distances 500 , 750 , 1000 mm . (within a parts studio)  It worked effectively and led me to wonder if you could balloon an assembly apart in the parts studio in one go by choosing a distance to transform from the assembly which could use the origin point and existing angles as a reference point in some way. Just a thought.

cody_armstrong

@peter_hall I am not sure I understand what you are referring to?  Are you referring to exploding the assembly so it can be ballooned?  Are you trying to balloon the 3D model or a drawing of the model?

kevin_quigley

I suspect adding exploded views to parts and assemblies

peter_hall

I cannot show what I mean as subject to a NDA , exploding is a better term for it. If you imagine an assembly of ten plus parts, seperating them so they can be viewed individualy. It is ok I worked a method as explained above, just looking for a one click method of exploding the assembly.

Narayan_K

@ peter_hall , If you are expecting exploded view option in assembly(As in other CAD software), presently Onshape don't have that capability. please see below link for discussion on exploded view.

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/10365#Comment_10365

If your requirement is to view the individual part,you can achieve it by performing "hide other parts" option by right clicking the on part.