Alibre calls it BOM – Bill of materials

The more advanced versions have it

Many CAD packages allow you to "expload" an assembly which moves the components apart in a similar way. Alibre pro & Expert actually call it Expload and you can also get a BOM (Bill of Materials) which would be a list of all the parts in the exploaded view.

Alternatively you could just assemble them with suitable offsets

Pencil and paper way is to draw each part a set distance from the others, the skill is in the layout.

Just to expand a little on what has already been mentioned. In 3D CAD, the Exploded View is created and edited in the 3D Assembly workspace. Explosion directions are typically set by the assembly constraints that hold parts together. There may well be an 'Auto-Explode' option, the resulting view can be refined/adjusted manually.

Once the Exploded View is to your liking, it can be added into a 2D drawing. Callout numbers can be added based upon a Bill of Materials (generated automatically from the Assembly).

Some systems allow the explosion to be split into steps, and exported to an animated PDF 'manual' – think of a 'workshop manual' with animated 3D colour images showing assembly or dis-assembly steps. Instructions and animated images are stepped through under control of whoever is viewing the PDF.

We ad it tough, isometric drawing templates and cut and paste (Scissors and glue), oh how the compuwter has made everyone an instant draughty.

Regards Ian.

Place I worked at in the eighties had tracers specifically employed to create exploded views for technical manuals as well as images for advertising. They were the first to be made redundant when the decline took hold, then draughtsmen were expected to do something similar. Eventually 3D cad systems enabled it to be almost automatic, but it still takes some thought and skill to get the right look and pairing of parts. While the cad systems I worked with would separate parts you had to move them manually to the side as needed. To me if you can read a drawing an exploded view is unnecessary it is most useful for the spare part suppliers who you wouldn’t expect to be able to read a drawing.

I had a squirrel with Alibre Atom and it's a bit fiddly but you can use the basic drawing function for a viewing angle, the notes bit for numbering and lines, then save as a PDF

Then use a PDF editor to put in the key list

Though I love it dearly FreeCAD doesn't have the features needed for exploded diagrams yet. Not recommended for this purpose.

Fusion running under Wine looks good though. This project is actively supporting it. Lots of ifs and buts though.

The main reason I still have Windows is to run CAD. Like it or loath it, commercial software is almost always written for Windows, then Apple, and just maybe Linux as an afterthought. It's easier to install on Windows and more likely to work.

Wine is good provided the Windows application is a little old fashioned, but not if the code pulls tricks or uses new features.

Dave