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Exploded view diagram
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Could someone give some recommendations on how they would go about creating an exploded view drawing, in OnShape?
I'm working on a design where a fluid flows through 3 panels, inside an enclosure, and I'd like to illustrate this with an exploded view. I can do well designing parts for printing or machining, but producing mechanical drafts/illustrations is outside my area of experience.
I'm working on a design where a fluid flows through 3 panels, inside an enclosure, and I'd like to illustrate this with an exploded view. I can do well designing parts for printing or machining, but producing mechanical drafts/illustrations is outside my area of experience.
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One way you could achieve an exploded view is by using an assembly and dragging all the parts out of position to an exploded state. In my example below I suppressed all mates before moving the parts with the triad. If you really want to get fancy you can add duplicate mates with an exploded offset and manually suppress and un-suppress to go between the two states. You can then make a drawing of this assembly, to get the isometric view I had to use the project view and chose the front view and click off at 45 degs. See below:
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You can also cut away a part of the model by extruding an orthogonal rectangle and removing it.
Hence what you want to do is probably doable, but scarcely (at present) practical.