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    Exploded model view Extension/Plugin

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    • J Offline
      Jersey22651
      last edited by

      I am looking for an Extension or Plugin that will take apart my model and show them explode like in the attached file.
      Thanks,

      Don


      Screen Shot 2015-02-06 at [Feb 6] 2.02.14 PM.png

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
        last edited by

        Maybe this will help? It seems to work for many.

        Etaoin Shrdlu

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        • J Offline
          Jersey22651
          last edited by

          Thank you for the quick response. It works great!

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            Good, good.

            I still prefer to make my exploded views, and I make a lot of them, manually but if it works for you, that's great.

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            • J Offline
              Jersey22651
              last edited by

              I was also doing them manually. I'd spend 30 minutes or so disassembling duplicates of dressers, beds, bookcases tables and just about everything. I was curious if there was an extension to explode them and it didn't surprise me to see someone had. After some tweaking of the coordinates I will record them and just apply them. A few seconds sure beats the way I'm currently doing it.
              Again, thanks for finding it for me.

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                30 minutes sounds like a long time for creating an exploded view. I can see why you'd want to automate that. I probably don't spend more than 3 or 4 minutes doing it even on complex models such as this sideboard by Steve Latta.

                https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7392/9693495449_a8bd7cb886_n.jpg

                I don't need or want to explode all the components, the ones I do move different distances, and it's always different for every model so a one size fits all setting wouldn't work.

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
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                  I had started the free one above followed by Cplassais few years ago without to know this one was yet existing by Todd Burch at Smustard! 😮

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
                    last edited by

                    Todd's has been around longer but even Todd says, it's not as easy to use as it could be.

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