Exploded Product View
An exploded product view on white — parts strung along one axis in assembly order, with anything that passes through drawn long enough to reach everything it passes through. Five fields.
We made two examples: two exploded views, each with a part that passes all the way through. The second is the stronger: the threaded tie rod crosses every part and stops exactly where the field says, at the foot plate, and the dashed centreline shows above the hanging ring and below the base. Both keep the assembly order, the grouping and the wide gaps between sub-assemblies as given.
You get an exploded view in assembly order where the shaft is one continuous piece through every component: in the grinder it drops from the crank arm through eleven parts. Sometimes the shaft comes out too long. Here it should have stopped at the lower bearing plate and carried on into the glass jar. Trace the shaft before you use the image, and if it does not end where it should, generate again or say more clearly where it stops.
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Input
Product a hand coffee grinder - brushed steel, matt black
polymer, a walnut crank knob
Parts crank knob · crank arm · adjustment dial · upper
bearing · top housing · conical burr · ring burr ·
burr carrier · body tube · lower bearing plate ·
grounds chute · base collar · glass catch jar
Through the drive shaft runs from the crank arm at the top
down through the dial, upper bearing, top housing,
both burrs and the carrier, ending at the lower
bearing plate - one continuous rod, true length
Grouping the two burrs and their carrier close as one group
· wide gap above the body tube · another above the
catch jar
Render studio render on plain white, soft top-left key
Returned 1 board · 2:5 · white, photographic
axis one vertical centreline through every bore
shaft drawn as a single rod spanning eleven parts, its
lower end reaching the bearing plate it seats in
order reading down the column is the order you would
assemble it in
gaps tight inside the burr group, wide at the two
sub-assembly breaks
ground plain white, no shadow, no reflection, no floorYou fill in 5 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The product
- 2The parts, top to bottom, in assembly order
- 3What passes through what
- 4The grouping — what sits close, what gets a gap
- 5The rendering
Exploded Product View
What this makes
An exploded product view on white — parts strung along one axis in assembly order, with anything that passes through drawn long enough to reach everything it passes through. Five fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the five FIELDS lines. In the third, say where each through-part starts and where it ends — the length is the thing that gets lost.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the view.
- Follow the shaft with a finger before shipping. If it stops before the last part it drives, the assembly does not close.
What you swap
- The product
- a hand coffee grinder — brushed steel, matt black polymer, a walnut crank knob
- The parts, top to bottom, in assembly order
- crank knob · crank arm · adjustment dial · upper bearing · top housing · conical burr · ring burr · burr carrier · body tube · lower bearing plate · grounds chute · base collar · glass catch jar
- What passes through what
- the drive shaft runs from the crank arm at the top all the way down through the dial, the upper bearing, the top housing, both burrs and the carrier, ending at the lower bearing plate — drawn as one continuous rod at its true length
- The grouping — what sits close, what gets a gap
- the two burrs and their carrier sit close as one group · a wide gap above the body tube · another wide gap above the catch jar
- The rendering
- photographic studio render on plain white, soft top-left key, no background, no shadows on the ground
Before it runs
- Parts you can name in order. The column is the assembly sequence, so a list you cannot sequence produces a pile stacked vertically.
- At least one through-part. The shaft or the long screws are what prove the column is an assembly rather than a shelf.
- A product with real internals. Something with three parts has nothing to explode; the format needs eight or more.
When to reach for it
Product pages, patent-style explainers, teardown features, engineering portfolios. Templates in this style return a beautiful column of components and a drive shaft drawn as a short stub, so nothing above is connected to anything below and the thing could never be put back together.
What changes
- One column of components on white, spaced along a single vertical assembly axis.
- A thin centreline running through every part's bore, so the order of assembly is readable.
- Through-parts — shafts, rods, long screws — drawn at full length, spanning everything they pass through.
- Gaps that mean something: tight between parts of one sub-assembly, wide between sub-assemblies.
- Parts in true assembly order, so reading down the column is the sequence you would follow.
Pairs with
- Illustrated Repair GuideA single-page repair or maintenance sheet in pen line — device, exploded detail, tools, numbered steps — held to the consistency check these sheets quietly fail. Six fields.
- Open & Closed Product SheetAn industrial-design sheet for a translucent ribbed product, shown closed and open — with the two views held to being the same object and the size stated on the page. Six fields.
- Product Interaction Hand SketchAn industrial-design interaction study — hands operating one product, drawn in pen line — sized and separated so the hands survive being the subject. Six fields.