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TractorGuy14-Alexandrite
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January 6, 2016
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Custom REF balloon?

  • January 6, 2016
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I can't seem to find a way to do this in Creo 2.0, but I need the REF balloon to match my custom balloon.

For reference, my company uses a custom BOM balloon where the part number is displayed in the balloon and the qty is outside the balloon. It looks like this:

Custom_balloon.png

I want the REF balloon to look exactly the same but display "REF" instead of the QTY.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

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    Kevin1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 7, 2016

    ‌You need to modify the reference balloon symbol in the symbols>report>bomballoon. I don't think there is a way to place it in another directory and force Creo to recognize it as the default reference balloon.

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    Chris321-Topaz I
    21-Topaz I
    January 7, 2016

    If you don't want to replace the default balloon, just make another custom balloon and do an alt balloon replacement.

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    James621-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 7, 2016

    I've never tried to replace the default balloons, but I'd start looking into this folder:

    <Creo 2.0 installdir>\Common Files\MXXX\symbols\report\bomballoon

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    23-Emerald III
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    January 7, 2016

    What we do is we modify the standard reference balloon in the folder <Creo 2.0 installdir>\Common Files\MXXX\symbols\report\bomballoon.

    It HAS to be the same name as the reference balloon and it HAS to be in the same folder as the standard reference balloon. These are hard coded in to creo.

    You can not use alt symbol for reference balloons.

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      23-Emerald III
      StephenW23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      January 7, 2016

      Oh and if I remember correctly, once you've added the standard reference balloon to a drawing, you're stuck with the one you started with. I've never figured out how to get it to re-read the reference balloon once it has been added to a drawing...a source of infinite frustration when we updated build codes and I forget to re-copy my reference balloon over.

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      Spencer_Brock1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      February 1, 2019

      I just discovered found the solution to this dilemma. It appears that PTC recently added a hidden dtl option: 

       

      • Set drawing option user_command to delete_unused_symbol_defs

      Note: its hidden, so you have to manually type in the option name and value. 

       

      https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS282798&language=en&posno=1&q=REPLACE%20REFERENCE%20BALLOON&source=search 

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      VladimirPalffy14-Alexandrite
      14-Alexandrite
      March 21, 2017

      Hi folks,

      I have created my custom reference symbol and REPLACED this files in the Creo:

      %loadpoint%\PTC\Creo 3.0\%datacode%\Common Files\symbols\report\bomballoon\qty_ref_bln.sym

      %loadpoint%\PTC\Creo 3.0\%datacode%\Common Files\symbols\report\bomballoon\smp_ref_bln.sym

      custom-BOM-symbols.png

      Note: default BOM symbol is possible to set in *dtl file >> set configuration option

      default_bom_balloon_type custom_bom

      Best Regards, Vladimir

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