What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: New capabilities of Exploded Views

Multiple exploded views per configuration

In assemblies and multibody parts, the ability to create multiple exploded views for each configuration is now available.  As before, each exploded view appears under the specific configuration in the Feature Tree at the Configurations tab.  Now, multiple exploded views can appear as a list under each configuration .  This means you now longer need that the old workflow of having to maintain separate configurations for separate exploded views, even when the configurations are otherwise identical.

This functionality is also now supported in eDrawings.

Copying exploded views

Additional power has been added to exploded views and configurations where you can use normal windows Copy-and-Paste functions (CTRL-C/CTRL-V) to copy and paste exploded views between configurations!  To do this, highlight an exploded view in one configuration and hit CTRL-C.  Go to another configuration in the same assembly, and hit CTRL-V. Easy!

Also in New in SolidWorks 2013

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  3. What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: Orientation dialog and View Selector
  4. Sometimes it’s the little things or Freedom to zoom around (New in SolidWorks 2013)
  5. What’s News in SolidWorks 2013: Revision Clouds
  6. Revision Clouds: What else is new ( Tip/Trick )
  7. Sometimes it’s the little new things (~part II) in SolidWorks 2013: Watermarking
  8. What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: Intersect (Wow!)
  9. What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: New capabilities of Exploded Views
  10. What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: Section View Assist – Part 1
  11. What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: Section View Assist Part 2 – Shortcutting cutting line creation
  12. New in SolidWorks 2013 – Enhanced Section View Interface – Adding offsets

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Author: fcsuper

As a drafter, mechanical designer and CAD engineer, I've been in the mechanical design field since 1991. For the first 8 years of my career, I was an AutoCAD professional. I utilized AutoLISP and many other AutoCAD customization features to streamline drafting activities for 6+ drafters and designers. I authored several custom functions, one of which was published in the March 1997 issue of Cadalyst Magazine. Since 1998, I've been used SolidWorks non-stop. I've worked to utilize the SolidWorks' user environment to simplify drafting and design activities for 20+ engineers. I've created this website to provide current information about SolidWorks from a variety of contributors. More recently, I am now employed by Dassault Systemes as SOLIDWORKS Sr. Product Definition Manager to improve drawing, annotation and MBD related areas.

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