bulk item balloons?

Well, I googled it on comp.cad.pro-engineer and no hits. This is MUCH undiscussed. Stuff that turns up regularly in NG traffic is likely a widespread problem; stuff that does not is likely an anomaly.

But, I suppose that kind of statistical approach is not very satisfying. Generally, they show up with a quantity of one, in the BOM (but they do show up!); the balloon, on the other hand, may be more difficult: balloons usually like to attach to something. And, since there is no physical geometry of a bulk item ~ no actual, phyical part to attach to ~ it just might not show as a balloon.

Also, other things, such as a sort order to exclude a component, or a table relation, could be used to 'suppress' a part from the table (and the BOM balloons).

David Janes

T Bennett, sorry bulk items can't be shown as balloons. It's a dra bakc and as I see it a big flaw with the whole BOM and it's workings You can create a symbol and but them in that way, but they won't ti to the BOM

I use my bulk items as 900 numbers, this way the chances of the

mixing or changing with the rest of my find numbers are few

Hope this helps, Glenn |B

You can't do it.

Also, they don't like their indexes being fixed. Sometimes the fixed indexes will stay fixed, other times they will revert back. It's a bit random.

Dave

Thanks, I'm currently using a custom symbol.

Todd