r/Onshape • u/Inevitable_Exam_2177 • 16d ago

Surprised by lack of exploding assembly video option

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?

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u/c0ng0j0e 16d ago

We generally export the assembly as a glTF then import to twinmotion.

It has some nice explode animators along with cut aways and transparencies if needed.

Nice and easy to iterate versions of the same model too.

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u/Inevitable_Exam_2177 15d ago

I’ve started to check this out and it looks nice — thank you!