I am looking for tutorials and or examples and or actual symbol files. I
want to create symbols (really BOM balloons) but I will take symbols that
will display part parameters. I can do this in a note, but I have an
assembly with 100 parts in it and I do not want to manually put in 100 notes
from file. Right now it takes me 13 clicks to put one note in the way I
want. I would really like to be able to put BOM balloons in and then change
them to an alternate symbol that looks like my note.
Problems I am having. I tried to convert my note to a symbol which does not
work. I get *** instead of my note. PTC/help is no real help. Where are
the examples? How hard would it be to put examples in? I suppose It would
be too easy to search for How To Create A Symbol, and get a hit, and then
create a symbol following a simple tutorial.
Here is PTC's idea of help for creating Customized BOM Balloons. By the way
it sounds like it will do exactly what I want I just have to figure out how
to do it......
Creating Customized BOM Balloons
Using the Custom command in the BOM BAL TYPE menu, you can create customized
balloons with user-defined symbol instances. When you use a customized
symbol to show balloons, the system substitutes variable text with
corresponding report parameters. If the default value of the variable text
matches a report symbol specification, it displays the value of that report
symbol in the symbol.
For example, if the variable text default value is asm.mbr.name, the system
displays the member name in the balloon. It updates (in the symbol instance)
only the report parameters that it displays in the balloon region; other
variable texts simply display their default values. In addition to report
parameters displayed in the table, the system uses two special keywords as
default values for variable text: it replaces "qty" with the quantity, as in
default quantity balloons, and it treats "index" as the index field in
default balloons. By default, for variable text whose default value is
"index," it fills them in with the value of "rpt.index."
You can use the Set Param command in the BOM BALLOON menu to specify a
different parameter for the index field. The system considers a customized
balloon to be a quantity custom balloon if it contains variable text whose
default value is "qty."
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Ron Rich
Staff Mechanical Engineer
Keithley Instruments
28775 Aurora Rd.
Solon, OH 44139
PH. 440-498-2842
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