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Composer · Lesson 2: Illustrations and animations

Vector images from an exploded view, then an assembly animation.

Lesson goal

Produce clean visuals for documentation and an animation that shows the assembly order.

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2 videos

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1 exercise

Intermediate

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Prerequisite: Lesson 1

1. Watch the videos

Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.

Technical Illustrations in ComposerVideo 1▶Technical Illustrations in ComposerAdd detail views to an exploded view and turn it into a vector image.↗ Creating an Animation in ComposerVideo 2▶Creating an Animation in ComposerAnimate the assembly and disassembly of an assembly in the order the parts go together.↗

2. Key takeaways

1

A vector image scales up without loss: ideal for inserting into a PDF or a Word document.

2

A technical illustration combines the exploded view and its detail views in a single visual.

3

The animation shows the order in which the parts go together: it complements the exploded view.

4

The same animation serves the shop floor as well as the marketing team.

Tip

Build the animation from the exploded view: the positions are already defined and the assembly order is easier to read.

3. Do the exercise

Take the assembly from lesson 1:

  • create a vector image of the exploded view with a detail view
  • create an animation that assembles the parts one by one
  • review the animation and fix the order if one part passes through another
✓To check: The image stays sharp when you enlarge it, and the animation follows a realistic assembly order.

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