Ok, here is what I am doing. I have to match up an item number on my drawing with an item number in an Excel document. The item number is already pre-determined and cannot change (don't ask, long story). I create my drawing, auto-balloon the assembly, create the bom, then change the item number in the bom. When I do that, it automatically updates the balloons. Now, I would like the same item numbers to carry on through the rest of my drawing, including sub assemblies, and part details. I cannot use the part number feature in configurations because it is a standard part. Is there any way to store a custom property of a standard part that would only show up in a specific assembly or drawing? It would need to be saved at the configuration level because the standard parts are tube and we use configurations to control the lengths. Any ideas?
By the way, I am using 2009 SP 0.0, on Windows XP, 32 bit.
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I'm trying to do the same thing. It's so simple. Just a BOM of all the subassys to show on a main view page, with additional pages
breaking down the subassys to their specific parts listed in the BOM, with just the view's parts listed. Simple, right? WITHOUT changing any of the numbers, so the BOMs are consistent from page to page. If the numbers juggle around (like the forced default) it's impossible to use them without
adding tremendous confusion. Is there anything besides manually adding a field to sort, or manually changing each and every balloon?
-Tim Miller, Selmet Inc.- Albany OR
This would be very helpful for me too. I would really like to attach a balloon to a single part (or to parts in a sub-assembly) in a drawing and have it be the same number attached to it in the main assembly, and have it update if it changes in the BOM.
That would be good enough, if it actually worked. The closest I can get is the top-level subassy # is what all the subassy components will show. So instead of 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, etc all I get is 8 on all the sub-components. Funny, this is something that is really needed, but seems to be ignored as it isn't a fancy-graphic kind of thing. I can still do it all manually, but with about 200 parts it takes a while. Inventor got this balloon/BOM/tables thing ironed out about 6-7yrs ago............makes me miss it all the more.