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ppandarkar-2_18353115-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
February 18, 2016
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How to create bom balloons on snap lines ?

  • February 18, 2016
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Hi..

 

I want to create bom balloons on snap lines, so the BOM balloons should link on snap lines.

I am trying to create it but not getting success. So please can anyone let me know the step by step procedure ?

 

 

Regards,

Prashant Pandarkar


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AmitDeshpande18-Opal
18-Opal
February 22, 2016

Hi Prashant,

You should be able to create the Snap Lines, offset from an object or view, and then drag the balloons to the snap line.

In Creo 2.0, here is what I did:

  1. Table > Balloons > Create Snap Line
    • This will bring up the CR SN LINE menu manager
  2. Select either Offset View or Offset Object
    • If you select Offset View, select an edge of the view border
    • If you select Offset Object, select an edge, entity, datum, vertex, section or existing snap line
  3. Enter the following:
    • Distance of first snap line from the view boundary
    • Number of snap lines to create, if more than 1, then
    • Distance between the snap lines
  4. After the snap lines are created, select and drag the BOM balloons to the snap line
  5. The BOM balloon will turn purple in color, when it has linked to the snap line

Please give this a try and let me know if you have any further questions on this.

Thanks,

Amit

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    February 23, 2016

    There is a problem with BOM balloons when they are place randomly.

    I reported a case a long time ago that I cannot force the balloon back to a snapping grid-point.  If you originally place it on a snapping grid, and always move them with the grid, they will appear to snap to their circle's origin.  In fact, it is simply moving "from-to" between snapping grid points.

    If snap lines are working the same as activating snap for the current grid, it may well be that it behaves as I describe above.  Amit's method makes sure you drop the balloon on the snap line during creation.  I am not sure if this will work with existing balloons.

    I only recently received a reply to the case.  It seems it was simply lost when an engineer left.  Of course, I got the "works to specification" line so I gave up.  Please let me know if the snap lines ends up working for you.  I like having a clean alignment of exploded assembly views.  And it is really difficult to make sure the "2X" is nicely aligned with the balloon.  In general, "to specifications" is simply a poor implementation.

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    February 23, 2016

    You're being way too generous with your definition of "to specifications".  I think the reality is much closer to "any behavior not explicitly described or prohibited (no matter how stupid, illogical, or inconsistent) is automatically to spec" (since by definition it's undefined, and therefore not part of the spec.)

    It's way too easy to look at something and say, "who possibly specified this behavior", when the reality is, no one did.  Instead, it's completely undefined and therefore automatically "to spec."!!!

    Instead of asking, "is this to spec.", QA needs to be asking, "is this behavior logical, intuitive, natural, expected, and consistent with the rest of the software package?"

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      TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
      17-Peridot
      February 24, 2016

      I finally got a chance to try this.  It is actually working but the method is not how one would expect.

      The answer is that you cannot snap to the snap line when creating the balloon.

      Just place all your balloons and then move them to the snap line.  It is working fine in Creo 2.0 and Creo 3.0.

      Being able to offset from objects is also nice.  This lets me do angled snap lines typical of isometric exploded views.

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