BOM BALLOONS

[jwilkerson]

Hello all,

I am trying to put balloons on a drawing view that has a simplified rep of a large assembly but I need the BOM to look at the master rep to get the right quanties. Is there a way to put the balloons on the view and still referance the master rep BOM?

If I use a view of a master rep, I can balloon it but I will have toblank 80% of the parts by single clicking each part.

Is there a better way to handle this problem?

Wildfire 4.0

M100

Thanks,

Jody

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[jwilkerson]

Thank you Stephen for sending the following reply.

ORIGINAL POST:

I think I already know the answer to this but here goes. I have a large assembly drawing. There needs to be many partial views to show all of the components. This results in very long regeneration times redrawing all the views. So I decided to try using simplified reps that had just the components I need in each partial view. That works great except the BOM balloons from the Master Rep BOM can not be shown on the Simplified Rep views.

JEFF'S METHOD:

Here is my method to adding balloons to Simplified Reps using only one table (repeat region) set to the Top Level Assembly.

A.) Top level assembly / create a simplified rep of what you want to have displayed on your drawing Exploded or not. (Save and name it)

B.) Orientate the view around so it looks nice / save the view name.

C.) In drawing mode / Top level assembly active / insert a drawing view using the saved view you created above

D.) Let’s clean up the view. Click the pull down: View / Drawing Display / Component Display / Blank / Picked view (now pick the Binoculars, to Search) Click on the View and the Search GUI pops up.

D1.) In the Search Tool GUI chose: Status / Rule= Display / Criteria= Simplified Rep, Sate=(Rep Name Step A above) Comparison= Is equal to, Value= Exclude (we are excluding the Rep from being blanked) Now click on Find Now, Items listed in left column are what will get blanked, click on one of the items and do a Ctrl “A” to select them all, Click the >> to move them into the selected column, and click on close, middle mouse button twice to confirm and exit.

E.) Your new view will only show the simplified Rep, from there you can Balloon the items using the Bom table looking at your top level Assembly.

Tips:

· When creating your simplified rep, use the Exclude rule and add comps as you need them, keeps your view from populating

· When placing your view on the drawing use a small scale size at first while you clean up the view then change it to what you need, this will help in regen time and to help visually trust me on large assemblies you’ll need this tip

· When doing a Ctrl “A” to select all the items to blank, before selecting the >> to move them into the selected column make sure Pro is finished searching; Hint Red Stop sign is done flashing.

· You can Explode the view by selecting the view Props and changing values around the way you see

Thanks,

Jody

[dustin]

I'm not sure about WF4, but in WF5 there is another method to do this.

A) Instead of defining rules in the drawing every time you create a view, you can define layers and put all the parts to exclude on their respective layers (using a rule definition relating to the simplified rep, or otherwise).

B) In the layer status tab in the view manager, save a layer status with that layer blanked.

C) In the "all" tab, create a combined state including the layer status (and any exploded, orientation, sections, etc., you require)

D) When creating a view in the drawing, simply select the saved combined state and go to town.

After reading "Jeff's method", I figured this out and plan to apply a hardware layer in my start .asm and a layer state with it blanked. I also will create a rule definition in my simplified rep to automatically exclude all hardware from the rep. My start .asm will also have a combined state save with this layer state active.

I know that WF3 did not have this layer state tab in the view manager, so you could only save one display state, and that was the default state then.