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BOM, Balloon Numbering - 2005

BOM and balloons in a drawing Insert BOM Begin Ballooning

- Drawing with sub assemblies and components. BOM properties:

- Upper level selected

When attaching baloons the baloon numbers assigned to Assembly (parts) as though individual component, rather than sub assembly number. (if I described it right.

EG:

An assembly with 5 sub assemblies and 10 individual components. Each subassembly has greater than 10 components, including subs.

The BOM lists 15 items

selecting an item to balloon, from a view, and the baloon number comes up

  1. I.m expecting something like 12.

I can make it work by checking and unchecking the various BOM properties options - Upper level Assemblies", "Parts" and back again.

Question:

Is this a bug or is there a setting I can configure.

Thanks in Advance

JV

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JVandenelsen
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Questions.

  1. What SP?
  2. SW BOM, or Excel BOM?
  3. Is it just one particular assy, or any assy?
  4. Have you tried a different drawing template?

WT

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Wayne Tiffany

"Wayne Tiffany" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

SP0

SW BOM

Any Assy

Aha! That gives me and idea. I'll give it a try and respond back here.

Thanks.

JV

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JVandenelsen

" snipped-for-privacy@carrollhealthcare.com" wrote in news:Xns95D3929CA9039JVandenelsencarrollh@216.196.97.131:

Well, that wasn't it. The problem persists using any template. (BOM groups correctly while the balloon numbers group for a momemt and revert back to ungrouped numbering.)

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JVandenelsen

Are you ballooning the same view as has the BOM attached? I don't use the SW BOM so I'm speaking from a bit of ignorance, but with the Excel BOM, if you are ballooning a view that is tied to a different configuration than the view tied to the BOM, you often get strange results.

WT

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Wayne Tiffany

"Wayne Tiffany" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Yes, Balooning from the same view. However, that gave me a thought. So I checked the congfiguration on that view. Sure enough, not the same as what I had checked in the BOM propderties.

That's done it. I'm good now.

Thanks for the help.

JV

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Locutus

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