Originally published on Homingo Learn .

Take a machine apart on screen, one part at a time, while a voice names each piece. The motion is a few small functions; the craft is in the order, the timing and the cuts.

The same drawing, assembled and exploded. Everything in this guide is driven by one number per part: how far it has moved along its axis.

Exploded views are how manuals, engineering channels and product pages explain a machine: the parts pull apart along the line they were assembled on, so the viewer sees what is inside and how it fits together. CAD and 3D tools (SolidWorks, Fusion, KeyShot, Blender) make them from a 3D model. For a docs figure or a short explainer you often have no model, and an isometric drawing generated by code is faster to change and easy to time to a voice-over. This guide builds one, step by step, and renders it as a vertical reel.

Pick the assembly axis and the order

One axis per part: the direction the part would slide out if you took the machine apart.…