Exploded drawings

[Agnieszka2 (Agnieszka)]

Hi,

What’s the best way to create exploded drawing for example for cabinet assembly in Rhino?
I have a multiple details and layouts so it is important that explosion won’t affect them.

Thank you!

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Agnieszka -

@Agnieszka2

What’s the best way to create exploded drawing for example for cabinet assembly in Rhino?

You’ll either have to make copies of the objects and place those in different positions, or make images (or Make2D geometry) of the configurations and place those on layouts.
-wim

[Nosorozec]

Try explode plugin, but I am not sure if this plugin works with the newest rhino since this plugin is 9 years old

Plug-in for making exploded views

Hi @brianscottwheeler, some quick tips, eg. with a box. Before starting, Explode the box into it’s 6 faces so they can be transformed individually. Start the BeginExplosionRecord command, select the 6 faces you’re about to transform. The faces are shown in orange color. Now move each face, eg. using the GumBall. Then run the EndExplosionRecord command. All 6 faces are moved back to their original positons and displayed in regular color. To see it explode with an animation use the Explosion co…

[ssommerv (Scott Sommerville)]

Exploded Views

Here is a simplified version of how I do exploded views for various assemblies.

1. Build your objects
2. On a layout, create a detail view with your desired perspective (in this case, I’ve gone with isometric)
3. Duplicate that view and move it in a direction that makes sense for your view (in this case, I have a shortcut where I type “ii” and it does the <30 snap for me for isometric)
4. Go into the new view, select what you want to keep, then Invert and HideinDetail
5. Go back into the original view, select what you want to hide, then HideinDetail.

(Edit to add - layer controls can also be used instead of Show/HideinDetail)

[Agnieszka2 (Agnieszka)]

Hi Scott,

Thank you for the idea. I used it in my project but I have another problem now. The overlapping details are displayed in rendered mode and there is a opaque background created as a result of overleap. Is there a way to fix it?

Below one of the examples

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Agnieszka -

@Agnieszka2

The overlapping details are displayed in rendered mode and there is a opaque background created as a result of overleap.

Please post both a 3dm file that we can troubleshoot and the output of the Rhino SystemInfo command.
-wim

[Agnieszka2 (Agnieszka)]

Coffe Table - Assignment 001.zip (16.8 MB)
I changed everything to shaded mode, because I couldn’t find the answers, so now I changed it back to rendered mode in Layout 10 that you can have a look. Thank you!

[Agnieszka2 (Agnieszka)]

Once you have the file, could you be so kind as to see if there is a way to change the settings so that the lines are not so faint when exported to PDF?

This is how it looks after exporting…quite pale.

Thank you!

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi -

@Agnieszka2

Coffe Table - Assignment 001.zip (16.8 MB)

Thank you for that file. The screenshot that you showed, was that from a Rhino layout, a print preview window, or a resulting PDF?

Also, please post the output of the Rhino SystemInfo command.
-wim

[ssommerv (Scott Sommerville)]

Unfortunately, I don’t have advice for rendered mode, as I’m working in Pen or Shaded 95% of the time.