Introduction to FreeCAD's Exploded Assembly workbench

The Exploded Assembly Workbench allows you to animate the disassembly and reassembly of a FreeCAD assembly. This can help understand the order in which components need to be assembled, and can also be used with the TechDraw Workbench to produce construction drawings for use in the workshop.
This video will give you a brief introduction to the Exploded Assembly Workbench and show you how to animate the parts in the assembly. You'll learn how to specify which parts are animated, the direction they are animated, the animation speed, and so on.
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Contents
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Creating the assembly
01:49 Exploration of simple groups
03:08 Playback controls
04:30 Hiding and displaying the trajectory lines
05:02 Playing the animated assembly up to a specific point
Workbenches used:
🔹 Exploded Assembly
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👉 Downloads: freecadweb.org/downloads.php
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Credits
Writer, Producer: Geoff Glasson
Editor: James Glasson

[@jeucedahn]

Hello! Another great video.
In order to use this workbench, you need to create an assembly in another workbench?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your kind words. Yes you do have to use another workbench to create the assembly in the first place. I use the A2Plus workbench to do it. I'm planning to release an introductory video about the workbench next month.

[@amateur87]

Hi, do you know the way to save the animation as a video?

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

I don't think you can within FreeCAD but you could use something like OBS Studio to do a screen capture

[@amateur87]

@@GlassonDesignStudio I had the same idea 👍

[@semirdzhyan]

Ok, so I'm lost at the first step. lol. Can't even find the assembly workbench in my drop down.

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your feedback. I neglected to show how to install the workbench in this video but have started to do so for other workbenches. You'll need to go into the Addon Manager under the Tools menu the search for Exploded Assembly and install it. You'll need to restart FreeCAD before you can use it.