Auto balloon/bill of materials

[BrunoA]

Hi all,

I am trying to add balloons (calling out part numbers) to a drawing of an assembly and it only lets me add balloons for the three sub-assemblies. Basically it only adds 3 balloons, (A, B, and C) for the sub-assemblies, to the drawing. If I try to annotate any individual parts it fills the balloon with the name of the corresponding sub-assembly. I've gotten it to add all the individual part names before, but now I don't remember what I did differently.

I also need to know if it's possible to use a different bill of materials, to call out parts from. I know you can select the assembly when you select the bill of materials, so I assume that's the only way to do it, but I wanted to ask anyway.

Thanks a lot,

Bruno

 

[francoI]

Bruno

open bill of material in assembly drawing you have prepared in advance and simply expand items with (+) signs. Then you can add baloons to individual parts.

Franco

 

[Azum]

Excuse me if I have misunderstood your problem but to me the solution seems to be as follows

When you add the balloons on the first balloon added a box appears. In this box which is default to 'structured' choose 'parts' from the drop down menu. Then it will let you pick individual components.

Additionally if you add a parts list to the drawing first, choose 'parts only' instead of 'structured' and it will show all the parts in all the sub assemblies on one top level

 

[aardvarkdw]

To add to Azum's response, you can change the subassemblies from "normal" to "phantom" in the BOM and this will make all the constituent parts visible in a structured BOM rather than the subassemblies.

David