An Approach for Automatic Generation of Multi-Mode 3D Exploded View

Abstract

The author presents an approach to assist furniture engineers in generating multi-mode 3D exploded view automatically under the environment of AutoCAD platform. Based on the secondary development of AutoCAD with Visual LISP programming language, the approach proposed in this paper can allow users to generate 3D exploded view interactively, either centring on a fundamental part or just exploding the target parts. The automated procedure for generation of multi-mode 3D exploded view is explained and applied with a wooden armchair taken as example, obtaining feasible solutions.