There’s a certain Application Engineer who shall remain nameless, never could quite get the hang of auto-exploding components to get the spacing he…or she, it wasn’t me I swear…wanted. This enhancement is amazing because you no longer need to worry about geometry when choosing components to auto-explode as in years past.

Let’s take a look at the first great aspect of this enhancement, the multiple auto-space component options. New to SOLIDWORKS 2020 is also the ability to enable Auto-space components for existing explode steps! In SOLIDWORKS 2020 the workflow enhancements go further as you are now able to choose multiple auto-spacing options, like by bounding box center, bounding box rear, and bounding box front. In SOLIDWORKS 2019, there were several enhancements including a rollback bar, the ability to reorder steps, and a nice workflow change that prompts the user to select ‘done’ when completing each step. Prior to SOLIDWORKS 2019 when creating an exploded view as you moved components with the triad, you were required to then click in the graphics area to finish that step. In SOLIDWORKS 2019, Exploded Views in SOLIDWORKS assembly files got a much-appreciated workflow overhaul.

Solidworks exploded view