Exploded Assembly jumps back

[putzwasser]

Hi,

I tried to create an exploded assembly for my timber frame. I wanted to insert a view of the exploded assembly into a TechDraw page.

Unfortunately the exploded assembly "jumps back" after the animation went through. By jumping back I mean that every object—except the last animated object—gets reset to its original position after the document got recomputed. See the screencast:

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This creates the problem, that the TechDraw view doesn't show the exploded assembly, but rather only the last animated object "exploded":

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Why is the animation/view always jumping back and how can I prevent it?

[papyblaise]

use a techdraw page and place each part séparatly on
to sélect one and clik insert multivue of drawable object

[wandererfan]

Unfortunately the exploded assembly "jumps back" after the animation went through. By jumping back I mean that every object—except the last animated object—gets reset to its original position after the document got recomputed.

Please post an FCStd file and any related scripts. Thanks.

If the 3D model is changing, the TD View will only reflect the model at the time it is recomputed. The view is not aware of previous animation steps.

You will need an animation step (frame? cell?) that depicts all the components in their exploded position.

[putzwasser]

Please post an FCStd file and any related scripts. Thanks.

Timber-Frame.FCStd

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You will need an animation step (frame? cell?) that depicts all the components in their exploded position.

How do I create one?

[wandererfan]

How do I create one?

Not sure. Didn't know there was an ExplodedAssembly workbench before this thread.

From a quick look at the EA code, each step of the animation changes the placement of one or more components. At some point (end of animation? exit from workbench?) the placements are set back to the original unexploded values.

Since the TD view follows the state of the source objects, when the placements are reset, the view gets updated to the unexploded state.

I think we need a mod to ExplodedAssembly to save a copy of the source objects in their exploded positions. Then the view could use the exploded copy as its source.

[putzwasser]

So, there is no chance to do this until someone implements that feature?

[chrisb]

So, there is no chance to do this until someone implements that feature?

That's very right. But you can sort of do it manually by moving the views to their appropriate positions. Here is an example of such a handmade TechDraw page

[putzwasser]

That's very right. But you can sort of do it manually by moving the views to their appropriate positions. Here is an example of such a handmade TechDraw page

That looks quite nice.

Do you insert a separate view of each body/part and move it by hand? How do you align the parts, so that they still are on one plane (e.g. part 5-8)?

Do you have a link to a tutorial at hand? I imagine it quite difficult, to align the parts so that it look like a good explosion drawing.

Regards

[chrisb]

Do you insert a separate view of each body/part and move it by hand?

Yes, it was all done manually, and it was no easy task. Although the result looks like it was easy as pie it was quite some fiddling.