multiple leaders for auto created balloons

[DennisRehmer]

To all,

I was wondering if there is a way to add a leader to an auto created BOM balloon on a drawing. I have a view with multiple items that are the same and cannot find how to add another attachment for the additional parts.

Also, does anyone have a custom symbol that you can have multiple balloons for the same leader. this would be good when pointing to a bolted assembly where you have a bolt/screw, washer and nut. This way you have one leader for all three, and don't need three separate balloons for each part.

One more item, is there a way to add in the quantity on the BOM balloon?

Dennis

[BenLoosli]

Split balloon will allow you to put the quantity in one half.

[StevetS]

I believe you can click on the annotate tab, right click the balloon, add reference then click and hold CTRL and click all the areas you want the extra leaders to..

[James62]

It's not possible to add reference to a bom balloon. Only regular notes allow for multiple leaders.

[Chris3]

It is not possible to do this for parametric balloons (driven by repeat regions). You could create your own symbol that looks like a balloon and manually add it with multiple leaders (although I wouldn't advocate for this).

You are not the first to make this request. It may be a good product idea request.

[Kevin]

‌For you're second request Creo accomplishes this by merging balloons.

[kdirth]

To add the quantity:

• Select the whole table
• Right click and select properties
• On the BOM Balloons tab change the Type to Quantity Split

Use window select, query select, or hove mouse off corner of table to highlight the whole table.

[ptc-4969432]

Depending on the amount of items in a view I just "Create Balloons - All" delete all the balloons that I do not want multiples of, and then "Create Balloons - View". This will give me multiple instances of a single balloon number(say if you have multiple switches or fasteners that look the same in a view but are technically different PN) and then the rest of the items can be identified by the single balloon.

[cgorni · Accepted solution]

To close this community thread on BOM Balloons properties

Summary of the exchanges and list of solutions:

• Automatic repeat region/BOM balloons cannot have multiple attachments as indicated by article CS21564
  • As a workaround you could add a Balloon Note from the Table tab of the ribbon (Balloons drop down) or Annotate tab (Annotations drop down menu). Then use the Edit > Attachment to add Reference from Annotate tab. The entered number won't be parametric and associated with the region.
  • You can also create your own Customer symbols, see article CS46380
• To stack different BOM balloons together you can use the Merge command, in fact this feature is also available for simple balloons since Creo Parametric, see article CS54183

• To enable the quantity in balloons you can edit the Table Properties and switch the Type to Quantity Split Circle in the BOM Balloons tab as suggested in the article CS75733
  • This can be configured by default with the Detail option default_bom_balloon_type since Creo Parametric, see article CS1044866