Balloons & BOM 1

[pkpavv]

Dear All,

I found one issue with numbering of balloons. Unless we import BOM on to the drawing, SW balloons are not treating constituent parts of an subassembly with same number.

To make it more clear,

Say I have one higher level assembly with 1 sub assembly(which has 2 parts) &1 other part.

When I tried to give balloons (without importing BOM on to drawing), SW giving
1 for first part of sub assembly
2 for 2nd part of sub assembly
3 for 2 nd part in main assembly

When I imported BOM(With 'Top Level Only' setting) on to the drawing (Having above balloons in place), the balloons automatically changed numbers as
1 for sub assembly (1 for both constituent parts)
2 for 2nd part

Is there any setting which says to SW Balloons, to treat only 'Top level' for numbering.

Because as our compnay policy, we are not using BOM's on drawings.


Regds,
Pa1.

 

[JMirisola]

If you're not using BOMs, what do you need the numbers for?

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

 

[handleman]

Just put the BOM off the printable area of the sheet.

 

[pkpavv]

No, we use Part centirc BOM's. Means we use BOM's created by PLM (Product Lifecycle Management Software) which is in sync' with SW Assembly and also with our ERP.

So The BOM created by PLM is consistent with both SW & our ERP. we can identify parts with same 'Find numbers' on Drawing and BOM sheets created by PLM.

Hope it explains better now.

Regds,
Pa1

SW 2006 SP 5.1,
Win XP SP 2.

 

[handleman]

In the configuration properties of the subassembly you must check the box for "Don't show child components in BOM when used as sub-assembly".

Either that or just put a SW BOM somewhere in the drawing file off the printable area of the sheet. You can then use the SW BOM to control the balloon numbers (or "Find numbers", as you call them) rather than having to type them in individually.

 

[pkpavv]

Five stars for you Handleman!!! Many thanks. Your first idea works better for me!!!

But I have some other idea to share with you all, which I thought I would use as last option, is to call BOM table (with 'top leval only' option) on to the drawing sheet anywhere and I can hide entire table.In that way I m not going to change any default SW stuff (like default part numbers given by SW...etc)

But anyway, your first idea is much better option so that we can control this in Sub-assembly level itself and we can document in the 'Design Journal'.

Thank you all,
Pa1