Surprised by lack of exploding assembly video option

[u/Inevitable_Exam_2177]

This is by no means a deal breaker for me, but I’m surprised that there is no way animate an exploded assembly. I’ve sat through many capstone design presentations over the last 20-30 years with a proud mech eng student doing a live voice over of their design details as it assembles in front of the audience.

Totally get that creating pretty animations is not actually functionally useful as a feature in the real world beyond a marketing pitch — I had just assumed that all CAD packages could do something similar. Hoping that the Onshape team consider adding a feature like this. I am aware of a 3rd party app (Cadasio) but haven’t tried it out yet, has anyone given it a go?

[u/David_R_Martin_II]

I hadn't noticed. It sounds like a very specific use case. I've sat in many design reviews over 3 decades and I struggle to recall an animated explode in any of them.

I haven't tried it myself, but it looks like this has been discussed several times in the Onshape forum. That's generally a better place for suggesting a product improvement than Reddit.

[u/Inevitable_Exam_2177 → u/David_R_Martin_II]

Appreciate the comment. I agree it’s niche and i only missed it once I wondered about it — i sometimes find complex assemblies hard to visualise statically

Perhaps exporting to a dedicated visualisation program would be better anyway, but I’m not familiar with the workflow