2 Replies Latest reply on Oct 22, 2015 10:18 AM by Daen Hendrickson

How to have balloon reference non-geometry part in assembly drawing.

Daen Hendrickson Oct 21, 2015 5:55 PM

I am using SW2014 SP5.

A coworker asked a "how to" and I can't seem to come up with the answer.

I am trying to have a balloon reference a part that does not have any geometry. This is an externally-saved part file that represents some adhesive.

I fully expected to see the "non-visible" components list in the balloon property manager. But this seems to only work for part files saved internally to the assembly.

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Daen

Re: How to have balloon reference non-geometry part in assembly drawing.

Glenn Schroeder Oct 21, 2015 8:55 PM (in response to Daen Hendrickson)

Hello Daen,

I don't think I've tried this to make sure it works, but I've seen people here say that if you activate the Balloon function, then scroll down in the tree to the non-geometry part and click on it's origin it will pick up the part number from the BOM. Again, I haven't tried this, but it's worth a shot.
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Re: How to have balloon reference non-geometry part in assembly drawing.

Daen Hendrickson Oct 22, 2015 10:18 AM (in response to Daen Hendrickson)

Glenn,

Many thanks for the tip! My experimentation shows that your method works with STACKED balloons but not standards balloons. With Stacked, you need to select a visible component first and then you can click the non-visible part's origin and it will be added to the stack. You can not select the non-visible part as the first part in the stack. You can however DELETE the first visible component from the stack leaving ONLY the non-visible part by editing the stacked balloon after it has been created.

Sounds like a good enhancement request...

Daen
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