Automatically arrange components – influence of the bounding box

During shot you can automatically arrange components using the so-called. chain.

Auto-Explode – why is this not in SOLIDWORKS?

Please remember this option, that the order in which parts/subassemblies are selected will affect the moving order. The second important issue is setting the alignment using border frame, where you can choose:

  • center of the bounding box,
  • front edge of the frame,
  • the rear edge of the frame.

Bounding box in parts, , assembies and weldments

To understand at all, what this frame looks like for a given part/subassembly, then it's good to insert it (you can even not approve).

exploded view

Only now, by changing the settings during the shooting, you have real knowledge, how the program will arrange the components.

exploded view exploded view

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