Ballooning Wiring/Split Balloons?

[Superslinky]

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I need to either add a custom balloon to a 3D wiring harness (made of individual wires) or add a split balloon (showing item number then sheet number) to my layout. What I have now is a 3D harness with all my connectors shown on it and a balloon calling out what connector it is. I want to attach a custom split balloon to my connector callouts to reference the wire and sheet number of another sheet in the same project. I should also mention that there are tons of connectors that as far as Inventor is concerned is the same model.

I've already created a user symbol to attemp to work around it but I can't attach the custom symbol to the existing balloon.

Secondly, why can't I attached a balloon to the 3D harness anyway. I also can't add a balloon to the nailboard view either! SOOOO Frustrating!

 

[EngAddict]

You can set up a new balloon style to use a split balloon or you can manually change it by double clicking the balloon or RMB and select edit balloon. You won't want the standard split balloon but select user-defined and select the sketch symbol you have created.

However, you won't be able to mix your balloon types, i.e. split and standard. Any you attach will be the same style.

What I do for a similar problem is have balloon styles set up that have invisible leaders and position them manually. If you go the all sketch symbol route then you can add attachment points on your sketched symbols.

Basically there are a few workarounds but nothing to do exactly what you want. The request for a dynamic sheet number property has been around for years but still not in R2011 AFAIK.

 

[Superslinky]

Thanks for your input. I did find a work around (if you want to call it that). Basically, with a ton of ugly notes and adding an additional sheet exclusively for the BOM I got my point across.

I've never quite got why all the big 3D packages didn't take notes from one another and fix where they're lacking.... I would love to get a software package that could get it together (as we all would!)....

Thanks again.