INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
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Is there a way for an assembly component to be included in the parts list but not be ballooned during to Auto Balloon function?
I'm wanting fasteners to be listed but not ballooned.
Thanks,
James
I'm wanting fasteners to be listed but not ballooned.
Thanks,
James





RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
Thanks for your response.
I have deleted them in the past for lack of a better way.
Some of these die designs have a LOT of fasteners so I'd like to figure out a way for this to be handled by UG for time sake & to prevent human error (me missing some of them).
I don't understand when you say "delete the ones that you don't want, which should break the auto-balloon behavior for the affected view in the future", are you saying UG will remember not balloon those parts?
Thanks,
James
NX6
RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
The only downside may be that as new components are added they can't be auto ballooned unless you're prepared to go through the whole deletion process again. My thoughts in general are that Auto-ballooning in NX isn't up to all that much as I still find you need to manually position the balloons and that I frequently get better result by manually adding them using empty ID Symbols as the arrow heads are more likely to be sited suitably.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
Thanks Hudson.
James
RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
I do most of mine manually and when I do take short cuts it is to balloon only the major components taking the view that given a hand full of the correct nuts and bolts that can't easily be installed in the wrong drilled or tapped holes there is very little to go wrong.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: INCLUDE IN PARTS LIST - NOT BALLOONED
I think your right when you say "Doesn't PLIST_IGNORE_MEMBER change the inclusion of the fasteners within the parts list".
By adding "PLIST_IGNORE_MEMBER" to ALL my fasteners (which will be a big hassle) they wont be ballooned because their not in the Parts List. So if none of them are in the Parts List their quantities wont be an issue, not for me at least.
I still wish there was a way to have the Auto Balloon function ignore certain components.
Or maybe some kind of code which would remove certain balloons after their placed according to some part name or attribute?
Thanks,
James