ExplodedAssembly Workbench

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Introduction

The ExplodedAssembly Workbench is an external workbench to create exploded views and animations of assemblies.

Features

Create nice explosions of assemblies graphically (no code at all!)
Create sub-exploded groups
Give rotation to screws and nuts for realistic disassembles
Use the provided auxiliary assembly tools to place your parts together
TODO feature: create trajectory from wires and sketches

References

Author: JMG1
Home page: ExplodedAssembly
Source code on github: ExplodedAssembly

Tools

Toolbar

Menu

Standard tools

Create Bolt Group
Create Simple Group
Modify Individual Object Trajectory
Place Before
Explode To Selection
Assemble
Play Backwards
Stop Animation
Play Forward
Disassemble
Trajectory Visibility
Align To Edge
Rotate 90
Poin To Point
Place Concentrically

Additional tools

These tools can be added to a custom toolbar. See Interface Customization.

Animation Camera Edge
Animation Camera Follow
Animation Camera Manual
Wire Trajectory

Installation

Automatic installation

This workbench can be installed from the Addon Manager.

From GitHub

Using git on Ubuntu & Mint:

Open the command prompt (terminal) with the keys Ctrl+Alt+t
Install git: sudo apt-get install git
Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/JMG1/ExplodedAssembly ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/ExplodedAssembly

That's all, the next time you launch FreeCAD the workbench should be available.

To install manually download this repository as ZIP and:

For Ubuntu, Mint and similar OS's extract it inside: /home/username/.local/share/FreeCAD/Mod (version 0.20 and above) or /home/username/.FreeCAD/Mod (version 0.19 and below)
For Windows extract it inside: C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod