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Use CTRL-E to Explode a cluster, ungrouping the parts.  Any changes made to the cluster will be lost on the exploded inserts, however if the cluster was added to the Part Explorer, it can still be used, and other parts inserts referring to it will still be intact.  If the cluster had been arrayed, then similar arrays will be preserved for each part that was a component of the cluster.  

CTRL-E is a "one-step explode", so if you have a cluster of clusters, the sub-clusters will still be... clusters.

 

Explode All An alternative is Explode All (E).  This explodes clusters and arrays, and will keep exploding down to component parts.  Thus an array of a cluster of clusters will explode completely to individual 1x1 Part Inserts.

 

See also Explode Array (ALT-E).