Creating Associative Balloons on Generated Product Views

This task will show you how to create associative balloons on views generated from a product (that is to say, in a Generative Drafting context).
Open the Product_Balloon.CATProduct document.

On this CATProduct document, Product Structure sub-products have already been assigned numbers (Generate Numbering icon). For more details, see the Product Structure User's Guide.

  1. Go to the Generative Drafting workbench by opening Product_Balloon.CATDrawing document.

  2. Click Balloon in the Annotations toolbar (Texts sub-toolbar).

  3. Go over one of the part with your cursor.
    All the edges on all the views extracted from the part are highlighted.

  4. Create a balloon by selecting an edge.
    The number of the balloon corresponds to the number of the sub-product created in the product which the views were generated from. In this particular example, even though the balloon you are creating is the first one, it is assigned number four as it is applied to sub-product number four.

    Note that if you modify the numbering in the product and then regenerate the product, the balloon modification will be applied to the generated views only after you perform a view update.