We Use only Parts Only BOM
looking to create a macro that outputs just details missing a balloon.
For starters. know about the "balloon icon", when expanding the BOM Table, just wondering if there was a way to "access" it.
I saw another old post Check Ballooning is done for each BOM item , which contained some incomplete code, I'm just wondering if anyone had any other ideas
thanks,
I've made a paid program in case you're interested.
Deepak,
Thanks for the offer, well appreciated. I would, if i had a budget for this type of thing, maybe someday my boss will see the benefit to supporting these types of endeavors, but he is from a different era.
Again thanks,
Cad Admin wrote:
Deepak,
Thanks for the offer, well appreciated. I would if i had a budget for this type of thing, maybe someday my boss will see the benefit to supporting these types of endeavors, but he is from a different era.
Again thanks,
Well can understand the scenario, sorry for not able to offer the program FOC.
I'm not trying to cut out any money you can make for your efforts, but I really think this should be possible from within SW by default. SW shouldn't allow you to produce a drawing with something in the BOM that doesn't have everything ballooned. Or, even better, it should highlight items not ballooned in a different color... Hmm...That may make a good Top Ten List idea for next year.
You can get that via BOM table, check the picture posted in first post.
I skimmed over that and missed it completely. I should pay more attention. I hardly every use that flyout, that is handy for making sure the parts are ballooned. I hardly every use that flyout for the BOMs.
Deepak,
Any ideas on a methodology to work through on this issue?
Cad Admin wrote:
Deepak,
Any ideas on a methodology to work through on this?
I've used similar methods as posted in this post Check Ballooning is done for each BOM item (which you'e posted above as well).
Here is how my tool works
The suggestion is incomplete, the gist of it, i believe, was to traverse the BOM and for each line iterate through all annotations to determine if a balloon existed pointing to this object.
This may work, though I am uncertain without fully testing it whether or not this would behave correctly with multiple components and multiple balloons. It is entirely possible that it would give some false positives or some false negatives in the check iteration.
What about if the balloon was hidden? accidentally or not?
Would this give me a "false" positive?
Could be possible, but in my personal case we do not hide balloons
I'd probably approach like this:
Get BOM of interest
Read item numbers into an array
For each view:
Linked to BOM?
For each note of view:
HasBalloon?
Not hidden?
Text is linked to item number?
Read item number
Mark in array as ballooned
next view
Report to user any item # not found.
Add any warnings desired, such as views not linked to BOM, or balloons not linked to item number, etc.
I cant remember needing to hide a balloon either, but that rare instance of it accidentally being hidden... ya just never know.
That check looks great Josh Brady
Hi,
Have you tried using the Deign Checker?
Tried it there for a drawing and it shows the above, no need for a macro.
edit. also works when the balloon is hidden
regards
Stevie
Yes, we have, but been tasked to add the check to an existing macro...so my hands are tied...LOL
Well i worked through some issues, (might have been small for others, but they almost done me in...lol)
Cad Admin wrote:
Well i worked through some issues, (might have been small for other, but they almost done me in...lol)
Good job!!
Is this macro available?
Well i worked through some issues, (might have been small for others, but they almost done me in...lol)