I have an assembly and its drawing. If I suppress one of the components in the assembly, the balloon disappears on the drawing. However, when I unsuppress the item, the balloon does not come back. It is there, but is hidden. Is there a setting that will make it visible automatically?
Yes. That is how I knew it was hidden, not deleted. I need it to be more dynamic than that, though. I expect the functionality was designed for configurable assemblies so you could have one drawing that updates based on what options are selected by a customer. I am doing something more complicated than that, but the functionality I am looking for is the same.
Hello Karen,
It sounds like you have the box shown below selected. If you'll un-check it they won't disappear in the first place.
That checkbox is not checked.
It is repeatable behavior. With the drawing open, suppress a file in the assembly, the balloon disappears. Unsuppress the file in the assembly, the balloon is hidden.
Karen Brunke wrote:
That checkbox is not checked.
It is repeatable behavior. With the drawing open, suppress a file in the assembly, the balloon disappears. Unsuppress the file in the assembly, the balloon is hidden.
I just tried it out. Somewhat to my surprise, you're right about the Balloon disappearing when I suppressed the component (and I'll edit my Reply above accordingly). However, when I un-suppressed the component the Balloon came back for me. I don't know why it doesn't for you.
That is the behavior I expected, and why I thought there might be a checkbox somewhere. Did you save the drawing with the item suppressed, then unsuppress the item?
I guess it could be a bug. I am still on 2017. What release are you on?
I didn't save the drawing, but I did save and close the assembly after suppressing the part. And I'm using SW2018 sp 3.
If you don't mind,
please open the assembly and drawing
suppress a component
switch to the drawing
switch back to the assembly and unsuppress the component
switch back to the drawing
No saving of anything is required. Just keep the drawing open the whole time.
Is the balloon visible or hidden when you go back to the drawing after unsuppressing the component?
That's the workflow I tried initially. The balloon consistently reappeared when I un-suppressed the component and went back to the Drawing. I even tried it with a component that had been inserted and mated, and one that was brought in as part of a linear pattern. It didn't matter.
I just repeated what Karen is seeing while using 2016 SP 5.0 as well as 2018. I saved and exited after suppressing the item and when I opened it back up after unsuppressing it, the balloon was still hidden.
Now I'm really confused. After seeing your post I tried again. I suppressed the component, and saved and closed the Assembly. Saved and closed the Drawing. Opened the Drawing, opened the Assembly, un-suppressed the Part, saved and closed the Assembly, and the balloon was back in the Drawing. I don't know why it doesn't work like that for you and Karen.
I don't know how to explain it working for you and not us. Just to double check, I followed your exact work flow as you describe and ended up with the balloon hidden still. I had to manually unhide it.
I placed a call to our VAR. I will let you know if they can explain the discrepancies we are seeing. Thank you for testing it in future releases and sharing your results.
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
Not really. For my situation, the answer was not to open the drawings. I just checked it on 2018 SP5, and got the same result as before.
I did try Mark's approach, though. If you delete the BOM table, the balloon reappears. I just hit undo, and the BOM table came back as it was so the item numbers and BOM order did not change.
Any chance you can upload one of your drawings where the balloons automatically reappear? That way I can figure out if the discrepancy in behavior is due to a system level setting or file level setting.
Do you have an active BOM table in your 2D drawing ? if yes remove it and your balloon appears.
I don't know if there's a way to make it do it every time but does the View -> Hide/Show -> Annotations allow you to click the hidden balloon and have it show again?