We have an assembly that uses multiple identical
configurations ofa part in two different locations. We would like
to show a splitballoon, in both locations, with the split balloon
showing thequantity of the part in each respective location and not
the totalquantity, i.e. location one would display the item number
with aquantity of 4 and location two would display the same item
numberwith a quantity of 2.
We could manually set the split balloon to display plain textinstead of quantity but the total quantity can change, potentiallycausing errors in the drawing if the designer doesn't catch it.
We thought about creating two different configurations in theassembled part but it then shows up as two items in the BOM insteadof one item (which is preferred).
Any suggestions?
We could manually set the split balloon to display plain textinstead of quantity but the total quantity can change, potentiallycausing errors in the drawing if the designer doesn't catch it.
We thought about creating two different configurations in theassembled part but it then shows up as two items in the BOM insteadof one item (which is preferred).
Any suggestions?
I have an enhancement request that is similar. My request is to have SolidWorks display the quantity in a known pattern of parts. For example, I may have a total of 20 #10-32 SHCS used in 3 different patterns. So, I'd like the balloon to identify the quanty in those patterns. In my case the system or SolidWorks already knows the answer. Your situation would call for some sort of manual intervention or decision making but it's still reasonable.
In any case, I think it's doable, it does not seem like it would be hard to provide.