Balloon sequence control on views of SW drawing documents 2

[rgrayclamps]

I searched this topic and did not find any discussion.

On a drawing view, it is a general practice that balloons are placed in sequece (cw or ccw). I know that I can shuffle around "BOM" items through "BOM Contents" using "Row Up" or "Row down". Another way is shuffle component orders in the assembly. But both methods are not practical for a large assembly. Is there a better way? How do you guy handle balloon sequence control?

Thanks,

Alex

 

[MElam]

If you right-click on the BOM table there will be a Sort option. This will let you sort the table by specified BOM columns. We sort by part number.

I do not know of a way to sort by assembly position, other than ordering the files in the ass'y feature tree to what you want and haveing the BOM follow assembly order.

 

[rgrayclamps]

Custom Item Numbers are not considered here as they do not associate with Item Numbers in BOM.

Alex

 

[MadMango]

Our products consist of about 800-1000 parts, including hardware. Unique parts average around 350, and about 60-90 sub-assemblies. Top level components, including hardware run around 100-150 items. We usually reorder the components in the feature tree to get the correct order we are looking for in the BOM table. With good use of sub-assemblies and patterns, this isn't much of an issue with us.

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[rgrayclamps]

Problem solved.

I just notice that you can force a balloon to have a different item number by changing Balloon Text's Item number.

Thanks for your comments.

Alex