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Exploded View in Z direction only

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chanson78
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Hello

I have a voronoi fracture of some pieces of a box, super simple set up. Now I would like to “explode” the pieces like the explodedview sop does but only in the z direction. The explodedview sop only explodes from the center axis out in all directions.

Anyone have a simple way of doing this?
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Enivob
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Sure, what you can do is follow up the explodedview with an attributepointwrangle and copy the original X,Y coordinates over top the exploded view XY. Then only Z axis will be affected.

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mestela
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pack your geo, try this in a point wrangle:

vector bb = relpointbbox(0,@P);
bb = fit(bb,0,1,-1,1);
@P.z += bb.z*ch('explode');

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Thanks both of you! I figured out something else with a pointvop but thanks! Its always great to see different ways of approaching a problem.
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