Peterhead Academy

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Peterhead Academy
Graphic Communication
Exploded Views
Technology Department
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Exploded Views

• Exploded views show objects blown apart to see
  how they fit together.
• This can be particularly useful when showing how
  to put something together, for example flatpack
  furniture.

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Exploded Views
Shown on the right is a real example of one use
of exploded drawings.
This is an exploded drawing of a flatpack desk
that is to be built by the buyer.
By clearly showing the position of each part in
relation to how it goes together, this type of
drawing helps the user to build the desk.
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Exploded Views
Shown is an exploded isometric view of a trinket
box.
The next few slides will show you how to draw
this.
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Exploded Views
The assembled trinket box is shown on the right.
From this view it is difficult to tell how the
box goes together.
To make this easier we will draw an exploded
isometric view of the box.
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Exploded Views

• We already know that isometric drawings are drawn
  using the angles shown below.

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Exploded Views
We start by drawing the isometric view of the
trinket box.
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Exploded Views
Piece by piece now redraw the parts of the box as
if they had been blown apart by a bomb.
The pieces should all line up with their original
position on the drawing.
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Exploded Views
This is the final drawing.
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PowerPoint Presentation. 2003