About Presentations and Exploded Views

Use the default template or a custom template to create a presentation file (.ipn). Then create as many presentation views as needed for creating animations or exploded drawing views . Set up the presentation views with the appropriate orientation, visibility, and explosion layout.

Notes:

• Each new view is added to the browser in succession as Explosion1, Explosion2, and so on. To change a view name, click the name in the browser, and type a new name.
• When there are multiple presentation views in a presentation file, all views except the active view are shaded. Double-click a shaded view to make it the active view.
• When changes are made to a model component, the presentation views are updated automatically.

Exploded Views and Tweaks

You can auto-explode the model in a presentation view. All components are offset by the distance you specify. Assembly constraints mated to faces determine the direction the components move to create the view.

To optimize the exploded view, manually tweak individual components to the desired positions along any specified path or by any specified angle.

Trails

Trails are lines in an exploded view that show the relationship of a component to the assembly. Trails indicate the direction and distance or angle that a component was moved to create the view.

When you auto-explode a view or add manual tweaks for individual components, you choose whether trails are created. Automatically created trails start in the centers of gravity of the components.

You can create trails manually and attach them to any points on tweaked components. You can hide all trails that belong to a component, or a specific trail segment that belongs to a tweak.

You can drag the end point of a trail segment to edit the related tweak.

Animations

Use a presentation view to more clearly demonstrate how parts in an assembly interact and fit together. Create an animation based on an exploded view, and record the animation in a video file. The animation consists of tasks and sequences that include component tweaks.

Tip: To enhance animations, use of the different visual styles available to the scene.

Model Representations in Presentation Views

When you create a presentation view, you can use a design view representation, positional representation, or level of detail representation of the model. For example, in a complex assembly file, you can turn off the visibility of some parts and save a design view representation that shows only certain components. In the presentation file, you can use that design view representation to set up an exploded view of the visible components.

In a presentation file, you can keep associativity with the design view representation in the model file. When the design view representation is edited in the model file, the presentation view updates with the edits.

The design view representation and the model associativity can be edited for existing presentation views. The positional and level of detail representation cannot be changed after you create the presentation view.

Camera Position in Presentation Views and Animations

Use the Save Camera and Restore Camera commands in the browser context menu, to save and restore the camera setting for the presentation view. Use the Set Camera command in the Edit Task and Sequences dialog box to define a unique camera setting for a specific sequence.