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Agenda: 411 - Creating Exploded and Animated

Assemblies

Who am I?

What you will learn

Demonstrations



About: Steve Webb

Steve Webb

Solid Edge Field Support

Siemens PLM Software

Steve is an Applications Engineer in the Solid Edge Field Support group. He has

over 25 years of experience in Mechanical Design Engineering and Mechanical

CAD. He has held roles as an Application Engineer and Educator at Siemens

PLM Software, PTC, Saratech Inc and Moderntech SI. Before moving into the

CAD Industry, Steve applied his CAD knowledge in industries including hydraulic

gear pumps, high speed packaging equipment, and textile equipment. He holds

a two year drafting certification from the Williamston Career and Technology

Center.



What you will learn

In this session we will take a deep drive into the two different ways a user can

create an exploded assembly and which method is the correct way for the output

that is needed. The Solid Edge Explode Rendering Animate (ERA) environment

has many tools to allow you to create the perfect explosion of your designs, and

all of these tools will be covered. Once the exploded model has been created,

we’ll then cover how to animate it. If you need to create exploded drawings, or

show how your designs are assembled or dissembled, this is a must attend

session.



Explode

Did you know - That in Solid Edge there’s two different

ways to use exploded assemblies? Not just meaning Explode and

Auto-Explode.

• Animations

• Saving video of assembly components moving in 3D.

• Drawings

• Make detailed 2D ISO drawing views for draft files.



Animations – Auto Explode vs. Explode

Auto Explode

• Auto Explode uses these assembly relationships to explode

assemblies and subassemblies.

• Mate

• Axial Align

• Any parts that have a Ground relation can not be Auto Exploded.

• If working with In Context built parts, Auto Explode will not

explode those parts because they are grounded when located.




• Auto Explode has a option to Bind all Subassemblies meaning if

a subassembly is in a top-level assembly treat the sub as a

single unit.

• Turning off the Binding option will explode the subassembly.

Demo-1



Animations – Explode PathFinder

• Explode PathFinder allows the user to change the exploitation

values for the entire Group or each Event in the assembly.

• Can select Groups, Events, parts and

subassemblies from the PathFinder to

change the explosion distance.

• Can select from the graphics window to

change the explosion distance.

Demo-2




Explode

• More control than Auto Explode.

• Grounded parts can be exploded with the Explode command.

• Explode in different direction from Mate and Axial Align when

other relationships are used.

• Explode can be used to edit explosions created with the Auto

Explode command.

Demo-3



Drawings – Auto Explode,

Explode, Drag Component

Drawing view explosions are used to create precision 2D drawing

views. When creating drawing view explosions of assemblies, user

can use the Explode or Auto-Explode to create a starting point for

the drawing view.

Top finalize the explode the following tools can be used:

• Drop – will remove all the events placed by the Explode or Auto-

Explode commands.

• Drag Component – create the precision moves to display the

correct location of the parts.

• Flow Lines – simulate the direction of the parts.

Demo-4



Explode – Flow Lines

• This command allows the user to draw

flow lines for Draft and Drawing

documentation purposes.

• These annotation flow lines are for display and drawing view use

only and are not in any way associated with explode events

• The auto and manual explode commands create events used

in animation



Explode – Flow Line Enhancements

• These flow lines are driven by the location and connection points to the

components and update as the components are moved

• The Flow Line commands are disabled until an explosion has occurred or a

component is moved



Explode – Flow Line Enhancements

• The idea behind the flow line command is to provide an easy to use tool to

assist the user in manually creating the flow lines they want for draft and

drawing documentation purposes.

• A typical workflow to using this tool is to first create an exploded view using

either the auto or manual method or drag component.

• When this is done, Solid Edge creates

“Explosion Events” in Explode PathFinder

Demo-5


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