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Basic BOM and balloon questions

Basic BOM and balloon questions

Basic BOM and balloon questions

(OP)
I have a couple BOM and balloon questions.



I have one large assembly that has about 75 parts and two sub assemblies. When I autoballoon it puts balloons on all the items in my subassemblies. It would be too large and confusing assembly to have everything exploded and ballooned on one sheet. So my original thought was to have 3 separate assembly drawing pages: The all inclusive one with the two subassemblies not exploded, then an assembly drawing for each subassembly and one large BOM on a separate page

1. Is there a way to have the autoballoon balloon the subassembly as one part rather than 25 individual parts?

2. How do I make the two sub-assembly drawing pages not start at 1 (so that I can have one common BOM)?

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

(OP)
I think I just figured it out. I needed to link the BOM to the drawing view.

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

(OP)
It seems I can't put a BOM table on a page separate from my exploded view.

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

Select the Bom header, then Control X (Cut), switch sheets and Control v (Paste)

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP1.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

My suggestions for your two questions:

1. Insert -> Tables -> Bill of Materials -> Top Level Only.

2. As long as the part numbers are on the top level BOM
and the same part numbers are on the subassembly sheets thats all that matters. The item numbers are meaningless.

You might also want to consider using indented assembly
instead of top level only.

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

Gunnykiln

1. You could go to the Sub-Assembly and under the
   Configuration Manager check on the "Don't show child
   components in the BOM when used as sub-assembly" option
   it is located about 3/4 of the way down the CM, this
   will show the Sub-Assembly as one part in the BOM.
   Hope this helps

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro

RE: Basic BOM and balloon questions

If you want to put a BOM on a page seperate from the view there is a work around. Put a view of the model you want on the new page, derive a BOM from it and then simply hide the view you just created.

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