Hi, We have a fairly large main assembly and we have no sub assemblies in said large main assembly, that way we have a flat BOM of all the parts in it. What we'd like to do is make sub assemblies from the main assembly so we can have an exploded view and balloon accordingly. I'd like to take the ballooned sub assembly drawing and copy and paste it into the large main assembly drawing as a new sheet. I tried this and am unable to then link this sub assembly page to the flat BOM of the large main assembly. Has anyone else had a reason to try what we are trying? Any suggestions?
I tend to create a separate BOM for each subassembly and in the main assembly BOM I display top level components...or in other words only sub-assemblies; this way you can identify the sub-assembly in the main assembly, and only the relevant parts are in the subassembly BOM. If things worked the way I wanted them to, I would have a main assembly BOM with items numbers for example 1-20, while the four subassembly drawings would have items numbers 1-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20 respectively rather than 1-5, 1-5, 1-5, 1-5 as item numbers in the sub-assemblies.
Edit: Sorry that is a little off topic in regards to ballooning, but there is the option to balloon the item with its file name. Would this be an option?