Ballooning indented BOM's
Ballooning indented BOM's
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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






RE: Ballooning indented BOM's
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)
RE: Ballooning indented BOM's
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
RE: Ballooning indented BOM's
Let me know if this works, and I would be happy to hear if someone else has a better workaround.
Eric
RE: Ballooning indented BOM's
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
RE: Ballooning indented BOM's
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)