Table balloon leaders to multiple parts

Question

TLDR: Is there a way for a table BOM balloon to have multiple leaders pointing to the correct objects?

We have finally made the move to tables and balloons in our newly created assembly drawings. It took 14.56 seconds after we went live for a user to bring up a scenario w/o an immediate solution.

When we were creating dumb part number notes we would create a leader to each part in an assembly. Example would be PEM fasteners in a plate of sheet metal. If there were five of one part number in one location and six of another part number in another location, we would just put a leader to all items of a part number

Now that we have moved over to balloons we are using split quantity balloons (image balloon_1.png). To accomplish the same result we would need a balloon on each part. In this case we would need 14 different balloons for the two part numbers.

What the user ended up doing is shown in balloon_2.png. Gets the point across if people are paying attention.

Interested in other ways to handle this. We're on Creo 8

Thanks

AJ_TROGLIO · Accepted Answer

Looks like there is no current way to do this as the question was asked previously.

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS21564

https://community.ptc.com/t5/3D-Part-Assembly-Design/multiple-leaders-for-auto-created-balloons/m-p/207661#M71030

aputman · Answer

I don't think you have many choices to accomplish this in Creo 8. Although not a good option, one option is to create a balloon note and add multiple references. The record number you enter into the balloon won't update and is not parametrically linked to your table. This may not be a big issue if your table indexes are fixed.

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