×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Macro to Generate Balloons of Oblong Shape with Nomenclature Data

Macro to Generate Balloons of Oblong Shape with Nomenclature Data

Macro to Generate Balloons of Oblong Shape with Nomenclature Data

(OP)
Hello Friends,

In an eralier post, i had requested a method to generate Balloons in drafting workbench of Oblong Shape and with Nomenclature Data.. (V5 R19)
i am only able to generate the balloons with circular shape and with part numbers at its best..

One of the kind members suggested an alternative way to do so using the following steps:
1. open the drawing and the parent assembly
2. switch to the drawing window, and activate the view to contain the balloon
3. click the Text With Leader icon
4. select the arrowhead location
5. click the balloon location
6. ignore the Text panel, right-click inside the dotted rectangle where the text will go and select the "Attribute Link" option (might have to move the Text panel and zoom-in to click inside the dotted rectangle)
7. switch windows to the parent assembly
8. select the part instance in the tree (CATIA will switch back to the drawing window and display a long list of attributes)
9. expand the attribute columns to see the entire names and scroll down to select Nomenclature attribute (easier to go to the bottom and scroll up to find Nomenclature). Click OK to use selected attribute.
10. attribute will appear in Text panel. Click OK again.
11. select the Text and add the Oblong frame

It was a very nice alternative to achieve this task.. but i am working on an assembly that has more than 600 parts!!! And this repetition of steps will take me ages to complete! i have almost negligble knowledge in writing Macros :(

i am not even able to record macros in the drafting workbench!!

could someone please automate the method?? or any other automated technique to achieve the task..???

Please Help..

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources