How to draw an exploded view in 6 steps

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cost out redesign for easier/cheaper manufacturing

Think you can't draw an exploded view?  I'll show you how:  Step 1: Draw the bounding box on your page where you want all the parts/views to fit  Step 2: Split each side on the bounding box into sections to represent parts and gaps between parts.  Step 3: Connect the lines to make isometric rectangle views cascading down the page.  Step 4: (here's the trick) Grab a new sheet of paper and lay out on top Step 5:  Roughly outline individual parts following your guide lines on the underlay Step 6: Throw away your underlay #sketchyengineering #design

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Craig Wenger

Owner/Principal Engineer @ Embedded Engineering Solutions | Product Development, C, Software Development

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Very cool! Can you do it in two dimensions of expansion 😁?

Sostine Turyasingura

Production Engineer – Lwera Electronics and Semiconductors Ltd Mechanical & Engineering Design | Prototyping & 3D Printing | Batch Manufacturing

1w

Woow

Linas Kesiūnas

3D Engineer Talks Sales | Follow for 3D, AI/AR & Sales in Manufacturing

1w

A trick that is forgotten in modern age 😁 I was copying designs by holding two pieces of paper on the window when I was child 🤘

Raj Gopal Menon

Bridging Academia, Industry & Innovation through Design | Academic Dean | Design Leader | Startup Mentor

1w

The technique of "boxing" the product really simplifies the translation. Thanks to Prof. Athavankar @ IDC

Jim Rasmussen

Prolific Inventor, Visionary Product Strategist, focused on Conceptual Design / Development of Coin Handling Systems and Casino Gaming Machines

5d

Step 1: Imagine It Step 2: Sketch It Step 3: Write a Disclosure Step 4: Submit for IP Protection

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Wiseman Chivava

Design Engineer at Pat Dunn & Company | Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)

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Lovely work

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Vicky Qin

3/4/5-Axis CNC Milling/Precision Turning/3D printing/Sheet Metal Fabrication/Injection Molding/Surface Finishing /15yrs+ experience ⭐️Helped more than 2000 companies overseas.

1w

Wow, fantastic.

Juho Jurvanen

🐍Industrial Design Engineering student @LUT | Product Design | Lost-wax Casting | 3D-Everything, CNC, Lasers and Stuff...

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It's shocking to even think that many designers / engineers never had class about sketching. So much that it's apparently mandatory course on my IDE (master's)... "Joke's on them" moment; I have taught a course of technical drawing & composition to to-be-product designers. But it was still a bit of a "WTF..." moment when I read through my curriculum and saw the course. Actually it was more of "What The Actual F..." moment.

Tim Hiscocks

Technical Illustrator

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The objects aren't isometric though

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Gary Major

Senior Creative Industrial Designer at Liugong Construction Machinery.

1w

I personally have an additional stage between 3 & 4 Caleb, flip the underlay so I see it as a mirror image to check the perspective, it’s amazing how effective a checking tool that is . . for me at least 😉

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