Ballooning indented BOM's

[NL8]

Ok, I've been digging for awhile, in the help, options settings, and into the SolidWorks Bible, so either I'm blind (a possibility), or SolidWorks has graduated to really dumb (another possibility). I'm using an indented BOM with certain subassemblies set to never expand in BOM. I want to balloon the subassembly but anytime I grab a feature of it with the balloon tool it thinks I want to balloon a part in that sub, which SW thinks is excluded from the BOM for all intents and purposes. How do I get the balloon to point to the sub rather than the part without manually overriding the balloon value?

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 08 x64, SP 4.0
SW 09 x64, BETA 1
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[handleman]

Never expand in BOM is a configuration-specific property. That is, if the view you are ballooning uses a configuration of that sub that is not set to never expand, you will get the behavior you describe.

How are you setting the never expand? Are you using a design table? To check that this is updating properly, go to the Configurations tab and check the properties of each configuration. The checkbox labeled "Don't show child components in BOM when used as a subassembly" corresponds to the NeverExpandInBOM design table entry.


-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[NL8]

It's working correctly, and the DT is calling it porperly. The sub's I want set to never expand are not expanding. My problem comes when I try to balloon the sub that is, let's say, item 38. when I put the balloon on the drawing it grabs item 38.1 goes "Oh wait, this item isn't expanded in the BOM, I'll put a * in the balloon". Short of overriding the balloon value, destroying the parametric link to the table, how do I make SW show Item 38 instead of a * for 38.1?

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 08 x64, SP 4.0
SW 09 x64, BETA 1
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[EEnd]

Try creating something at the assembly level to select while creating the balloon, reference geometry (point or axis) or an element of a sketch.

Let me know if this works, and I would be happy to hear if someone else has a better workaround.

Eric

 

[NL8]

Typically selecting a sketch element with a balloon produces the same results, I'm never tried it with a plane or axis though.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 08 x64, SP 4.0
SW 09 x64, BETA 1
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[handleman]

Ballooning a sketch entity seems to work for me. The sketch entity, of course, has to be created in the subassembly of interest. Pretty lame workaround, though.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)