Chapter 24: Working with Tables and Drawings
FIGURE 24.19
Creating the Bill of Materials- Click inside the exploded view, but not on any part geometry, and then select the
Autoballoon tool from the Annotations toolbar. Toggle through the available options
to see whether any of the possible autoballoon configurations meets your needs. If not,
use the standard Balloon tool to select the part and place the balloon. This gives you
more control over the attachment points and placement of the balloons. - Change the balloon for the short pin to be a circular split-line balloon (do this by
clicking the balloon and then switching the style in the PropertyManager). Notice
that the quantity appears in the bottom of the balloon. The drawing view and the BOM
should now look like Figure 24.20.
Add a second leader to the balloon for the short pin by Ctrl-dragging the attachment
point for the first leader from one pin to the other.
- Notice that several of the parts use a default description of “description.” Edit each
of these parts by right-clicking the part’s row in the BOM table and selecting Open <file-
name> from the menu. Change the Description custom property in each part. Keep in
mind that this may be handled differently for configured parts. - The Bracket part is listed twice using the configuration name because of the way the
configurations are set up for the parts. To list the bracket only once using the filename,
open the bracket, RMB+click one of the configuration names in the
ConfigurationManager, and select Properties. In the Bill of Materials Options panel, select
Document Name from the drop-down list. Do this for the other configuration, as well.
Notice also that the Description field holds the configuration-specific custom property for
Description, which is used in the BOM.