- [Instructor] Within the Animation Wizard,
I can also automatically generate
Explode and Collapse animations.
Now, in order to generate this,
I will need to tell SolidWorks how I'd like
my assembly to explode or collapse.
So to do this, I'll need to generate
an Explode View within SolidWorks.
So if you're a SolidWorks designer,
you'll probably already be familiar with this process.
Or, if you're just the animation designer,
perhaps you can ask your SolidWorks users
to generate these Explode Views for you.
However, it is a simple process
which I can go through here quickly as well.
So, to generate an Explode View,
I'll just want to browse to my Assembly tab
and look for Explode View over here.
And just click on Explode View and that
will jump me into my Explode command.
And from here, it's quite simple.
It's really just click and any of the components
as you'd like to explode them.
So I'll do a very simple explode here.
Just grab this clip.
So I'm just gonna click onto that clip.
And notice I have the triad automatically pop up.
So now I can drag in the X, Y or zed directions.
So, for example, I can explode this clip out
in the zed direction.
And that creates an explode step here.
So that would be the first step of my explode animation
once I run through the Animation Wizard.
And it follows the steps in order
of how I'm creating this Explode View.
So maybe next, I want to click on my gear
and explode that out in the same zed direction.
And then maybe I'll just grab a few of the nuts here.
And I can actually explode multiple components at once,
so I can grab one, two, three nuts here.
And explode in the opposite zed direction there.
And maybe I'll just leave it like this for now,
nice and simple, just a three-step Explode View here.
And so when I create my animation,
it should follow that exact same step.
So first, my ring should come off.
Then my gear should come off.
Then my three nuts should come off.
Okay? So once I'm happy with that,
I can just hit the green check to finish off that explode.
And now that I have this view created within SolidWorks,
I can use it in that Animation Wizard.
So, I'll go back down into my Motion manager,
and back into my Animation Wizard here.
And now notice I have the rotate model available
that I just used.
I also now have Explode and Collapse.
So I can click on Explode there.
And click Next.
And again, very similarly, just give the duration
and the start time.
So again, I'm gonna start at zero seconds,
maybe I'll say my whole explode
I want to be about six seconds long.
And that's all there is to it.
Just hit Finish.
Now we can see we have my full animation
automatically being generated here.
Essentially all it is is from zero to two seconds
that ring will be exploding.
From two to four seconds, that gear will be exploding.
And then from four to six seconds,
I have my nuts exploding.
So let's play through, or calculate this first
and take a look.
So here we can see, again, fairly simple animation.
But it was really automatically created for me
just based on that Explode View.
All it was was a click of a button,
and you could have very, very complex
explode animations automatically generated for you
just from an Explode View.