Exploded Assembly

FreeCAD workbench to create exploded views and animations of assemblies.

The Exploded Assembly icon.

Watch a screencast of Exploded Assembly

Important note: This repository replaces the now obsolete (https://github.com/JMG1/FreeCAD_ExplodedAssemblyAnimationWorkbench)

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

Installation

Automatically via Addon Manager (Recommended)

As of FreeCAD v0.17.9944 the new Addon Manager has been merged. Install this addon by:

• Opening Tools > Addon Manager
• Locating ExplodedAssembly and installing.
• Relaunching FreeCAD.

Manually install using git

Instructions for Ubuntu & Mint specifically but can be adapted to other distros.

• 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
• Relaunch FreeCAD (workbench should be incorporated automagically).

Manually install via ZIP

• Download https://github.com/JMG1/ExplodedAssembly as a ZIP (click 'Clone or Download' button)
• For Ubuntu, Mint and similar OS's, extract it inside /home/username/.FreeCAD/Mod
• For Windows, extract it inside drive: \Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod
  Then
• Relaunch FreeCAD (workbench should be incorporated automagically).

Usage

1. Check the provided 'example.fcstd'.
2. Load the workbench and then click on "Load Example File" inside the workbench commands tab:

Watch the Exploded Assembly workflow screencast.

Documentation

Wiki documentation will be available soon.

Feedback

For bugs please open a ticket in the issue queue. For discussion please use the dedicated Exploded Assembly thread in the FreeCAD forums.

License

GPLv2.0

Author

Javier Martínez @JMG1