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Adjacent Balloon Placement

Adjacent Balloon Placement

Adjacent Balloon Placement

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When adding leaderless circle type identification symbols, they will only line up with the original on a horizontal or vertical basis.  This results in loose placement and they will not track with the base symbol's movement.

Is there a way to make them "stick" together like with a coincident quadrant point method?  Other cad packages seem to do this by default.

 

RE: Adjacent Balloon Placement

Edit the origin of the secondary balloon, check the associative box and use the X,Y method. Enter the diameter of the balloon for the X value and 0 for Y. Now when the main balloon moves, the secondary will follow.

RE: Adjacent Balloon Placement

NO there is not, but we are working on resolving this issue in a future release.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: Adjacent Balloon Placement

We're looking at something a lot more usable than that, which is fine if you're only linking 2 ID Balloons, but try 4 or 5 and it gets a bit tedious.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 

RE: Adjacent Balloon Placement

Agreed.

RE: Adjacent Balloon Placement

To add to this, there should be an option in the Origin Tool for Character Offset method so that : when I select "Associative" option and select the "object" (first balloon) to which I want to associate the secondary balloon, the Relative Coordinates (X and Y offset values wrt the object to be associated with) should be displayed automatically in the dialog.

This will be very good enhancement if implemented, which eases the associating task between the annotations.

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