Generating Balloons and a Bill of Material

This task will show you how to do the following:
  • generate balloons in the active view. Balloons correspond to references defined on the different components of an assembly.
  • insert a Bill of Material into the active view. The Bill of Material provides information on the product element from which the view was generated.
The left view, in which you will generate the balloons and the Bill of Material, should still be active from the previous task. If not, double-click it to activate it.
 

Generate Balloons
Note that the assembly components have previously been numbered in the Product Structure workbench using the Generate Numbering command.

  1. Click Generate Balloons in the Generation toolbar.

    The balloons are automatically generated onto the active view.
 

Insert a Bill of Material
For more in-depth information on Bills of Material, refer to Generating a Bill of Material in the User Tasks chapter.
 

  1. Select Insert > Generation > Bill of Material. 

  2. Click in the drawing sheet to specify where the Bill of Material should be inserted. In this particular case, click at the bottom right of the left view.

    The Bill of Material is created.

  3. Optionally zoom the drawing to take a closer look at the balloons and/or the Bill of Material.