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Ballooning Problems

Ballooning Problems

Ballooning Problems

(OP)
We just upgraded to SW 2006 sp2.0 from 2005 and have been having some problems with Ballooning.  About half the balloons we manually put on a dwg go "dangling".  I have been hovering over an edge or a face until it highlights and we get the leader to pop up and then select it.  Half the time it selects it correctly and the other half it puts a circle balloon with a "?" in it(dangling balloon).  Is there some option we have selected or are we doing something wrong?  This is the same procedure we did with ballooning in 2005.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

RE: Ballooning Problems

I've been having a similar problem, and merely hitting re-draw, refresh, or (CTRL-Q - 'forced re-draw') doesn't seem to have any effect.  The only way I have found to rectify the situation is to 'balloon' again. ??

RE: Ballooning Problems

Can you get the leader to attach to an edge, after insertion ... by dragging the arrow to an edge?

Have you tried using the Selection Filter?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Ballooning Problems

For us, ballooning has been a problem all the way back to SW2004.  We found that sometimes you must have the assembly open in the same state as the view you are trying to balloon in order to be able to select a part.  Sometimes you have to go as far as to open the part that you cannot select.  When all else fails use auto-balloon.

Regards,

Regg

RE: Ballooning Problems

(OP)
After some more testing, it looks like it might be the mouse.  I am using a Microsoft Optical Intellimouse with the latest driver.  It still does the bad balloons.  When I switch to a different brand of mouse (ie Dell optical, or IBM optical), the balloons come in perfect.  Go figure???

RE: Ballooning Problems

I have had the same problem with adding balloons to drawings with exploded views.

On any particular drawing (with exploded views) I can attach the balloon leaders to 95% of the components; but the other 5% don't let me select ANY faces or edges.  I opened the assembly while the drawing is open and I still can't select any of the edges of faces.  If I have the assembly open, and put it in the exploded state, I can select ANY of the edges or faces on ALL of the components.  It's a hassle to open the assembly to attach leaders on a drawing but that's the work around that I have found.

Does anyone know why this is happening or how to remedy the problem so that I don't have to open every assembly to annotate the drawing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bausch & Lomb
Mechanical Designer
St. Louis, MO
http://www.bausch.com/

RE: Ballooning Problems

I do not know why it is happening but your work-around is the only one I have found to work.  I have doing this for the last couple years.

SA

RE: Ballooning Problems

I have been experiencing the same issues with trying to place Ballons on assembly drawings. It almost appears like the selection is jumping around and you have to time your mouse click when an edge is highlighted. The solution that works for me is like Limey suggested and use the selection filters (edge or surface) and it works everytime. well most of the time it works.

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