AutoCAD Inventor :: Ballooning Wiring / Split Balloons
May 17, 2010
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I need to either add a custom balloon to a 3D wiring harness (made of individual wires) or add a split balloon (showing item number then sheet number) to my layout. What I have now is a 3D harness with all my connectors shown on it and a balloon calling out what connector it is. I want to attach a custom split balloon to my connector callouts to reference the wire and sheet number of another sheet in the same project. I should also mention that there are tons of connectors that as far as Inventor is concerned is the same model.
I've already created a user symbol to attemp to work around it but I can't attach the custom symbol to the existing balloon.
Secondly, why can't I attached a balloon to the 3D harness anyway. I also can't add a balloon to the nailboard view either!
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Aug 28, 2013
I have several iterations of an assembly. Specifically I have a base of a machine with different tooling for different products.
I generated the BOM by referencing the specific tooling I am trying to detail. That worked. But when I balloon, it references the main assembly. It won't let me redirect the source file to the tooling asm.
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Jan 9, 2014
When ballooning an assembly drawing having a structured/all levels BoM, the balloons default to the part level of the BoM hierarchy. Is there a way to have the balloons reference the part's subassembly (direct parent) without having to override the value of each balloon manually?
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Feb 2, 2012
I'm trying to write a program in C# to automate ballooning from a BOM.The routine must read the BOM and for every row it highlights in all the views the corresponding component.Then the user must be able to manually draw a balloon or balloons to the highlighted items.
When done the next row of the BOM is called, etc.I can choose to start with a BOM from our PDM system or the Inventor BOM, partlist or drawingBOM
I tried different ways but I get stuck on it.I even tried to select the nodes in the browser and called oNode.doselect, but then I can't get the proper type for the selected items to go further?
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Nov 29, 2012
I can't seem to find the .cfg files that supposedly come with autocad Inventor to manipulate and export wiring information. I've done a complete search of all my autodesk folders but it just doesn't seem to be anywhere.
Is there a place online where this file is mirrored and can be downloaded or copied?
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Jul 24, 2012
Another question about the Cable and Harness module. When I am trying to create Segments, I can never select cylindrical features. Using the Tube and Pipe module, I can select them no problem, but for some reason under Cable and Harness I cannot.
This is a huge pain for me for two reasons, all of our wire loops are cylindrical, and I am unable to place a segment off of an already existing Flexible Hose or other Electrical segment.
Is this a limitation of the Cable and Harness module, that you cannot place segments relative to a cylindrical feature?
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Mar 2, 2012
I am wondering when in the idw and have multiple parts some the same and some different. I would like to distinguish between each part as a different part or balloned so they all have a different ref number.
example: have part A and part B and part C
part A has three different instances in the iam
part B has two
part C has four
How do I represent them in parts list and ballooning as different single instances?
part A- ballooned like- 1, 2, 3
part B- ballooned 4,5
part C- ballooned 6,7,8,9
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Feb 21, 2013
I've been creating documentation for cable assembly for many years now and I am trying to determine a way to use the Inventor Cable and Harness feature to accomplish the same detailed drawings as I previously made by hand. The first thing I notice is that the connectors do not exist at the cable level, even though this is how they will be manufactured. Is there any way to generate a cable with wiring and connectors all existing together in an assembly that can then be documented in a drawing?
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Mar 11, 2013
I have a situation where there was a modified balloon with an overridden part number that was causing some confusion. Is it possible to toggle a setting, like how you can select Overridden Inventor dimensions, to find any overridden balloon objects? Need to save some time performing a manual, visual search.
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Sep 1, 2011
I want to add the Balloon Renumbering function to our templates using iLogic, but when I run it I get an error message saying: "The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))". I have narrowed it down and think it has to do with the following line: partInfo(i - 1).Number = drawBOMRow.Item(itemColumn).Value. When I remove that line I don't get an error message, but every balloon is set to item no 0. The function I want to achieve with the code is to renumber separate part files against the assembly BOM.
Public Structure udtPartInfo Public udNumber As Integer Public ReferencedFile As String End Structure Sub Main() Dim drawDoc As DrawingDocument drawDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument Dim baseSheet As Sheet baseSheet = drawDoc.Sheets.Item(1) Dim valSet As BalloonValueSet
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Nov 8, 2011
Any easy or more reliable way of getting balloons to stay in the direction you want?
In the image i've attached you can see what normally happens when dragging a balloon in position on the left and what i desire (and accomplish after a lengthy fight) on the right.
Is there a way to make a balloon (3.30.4 in this case) go into the desired direction without having to fight with it?
Using IV2014 Pro SP1 update 1, Win7-64bit
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Jan 3, 2012
How do you show associated BOM quantities on balloons in the drawing?
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Oct 31, 2013
I want my custom property to defined as item #. That Item # then is represented in the balloon.
reasoning is that then engineers wont have to check drawings anymore for the guess work involved in matching the part balloon to each individual part in the assembly being called out.
I can then focus on creating a BOM that shows the different item#'s and the user can quickly go through it.
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Jul 16, 2013
We want to ensure that a balloon callout exists for every item in the parts list (BOM) in our assembly drawings. Is there a way to easily do this?
Currently, if we have an assembly with 30 parts, we manually search for each of the 30 BOM balloon to verify that none were missed. Since the balloons are not in order, balloon 5 could be on page 2 while 6 is on page 8. This method is often time-consuming and error prone.
It probably goes without saying, but if ballons are missed, then assemblers have nothing to show them were the parts go and either come ask us or guess.
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Jun 19, 2012
know if we can now attach Balloons to sketched geometry in the .idw in 2012?
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Oct 24, 2011
How to make Quantity to be represented less precise in the balloon.
I mean to make less zeros after the dot. The upper balloon row is Quantity.
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Jul 10, 2012
In Inventor 2012, you could choose Balloon, select a part, click at some location and the Balloon was placed and finished. Now in Inventor 2013 you have to right-click and choose Continue. The same applies, when you want to place a Leader Text (and maybe elsewhere as well).
Why do we suddenly have to make two additional clicks compared to Inventor 2012. It doesn't work, that you can press Enter instead of the additional mouse clicks.
And why is the Open Drawing moved to second level. The Marking Menu is of no use, especially not in the tree browser.
Why do you Inventor designers make such changes that make Inventor more annoying to operate compared to the previous version. It should be the other way around....like the brilliant inclusion of Open Drawing.
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Jul 5, 2012
The company I am working for has dragged their CAD kicking and screaming into the late nineties and have upgraded to 3D! Recreate their drawings using 3D models, I have noticed the symbol gallery doesn't provide such things as Rev Balloons or Rev Triangles.
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Jul 1, 2013
We are experiencing a significant problem which is shutting us down almost completely with several files. We believe this is because they are files which at on e time had Civil drawings x'ref'd into them. Even after detaching the xref's and purging and auditing, they remain large (38mb) so that AutoCAD (we use 2013 both full and LT versions which all react the same - Windows 8 64 bit) cannot even perform basic functions like copy/paste. They become basically unusable, and we can't continue. We have done all the program updates and once this happens, it appears that it can't be reversed.
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Sep 25, 2011
What type of line are you using to show electrical wiring in a house, I've used the arc line and I really don't like the flexibility of that, it want bend like I want it to. The next thing I'm trying now is to use a leader line without arrows, that works better, you can bend that little rascal all over the place.
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Oct 6, 2013
I need to make an Electrical Wiring Diagram of an Induction Furnace.
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Mar 25, 2012
I have a very large assembly drawing. The BOM is three times the height of my D size format. How do you split the BOM to break it into 2 or 3 columns instead of one large one that does not fit on the paper?
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Nov 7, 2013
I have a part I have drawn in inventor. It is saved as an ".ipt" file.
I would like to split this part into two seperate Ipt files so i can assemble it a different way.
For example,
the part i wish to design is an alternate keying of the one i just drew-
meaning that a solid of the part is rotated 60 degrees in this case.
Is it possible to do this with inventor commands?
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Apr 9, 2012
I modified a box build in Inventor in Fusion and then imported it back into Inventor as a bowl. I am trying to split the bowl in half and create an assembly drawing which I can submit. When I try to split the bowl I get and error message: "The attempted operation did not successfully complete due to unforseen problems. Try with different inputs or outputs." I've attached the file in case you want to try yourself.
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Jun 26, 2012
I want to apply a pressure load on portion of a surface in my INVENTOR solid model. My problem is that i cannot split the surface in inventor easily. I did it my creating a separate surface with an offset that i reduced to almost zero.
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Sep 2, 2013
I made all my polygons with the same technique but somehow interactive polygon split tool does not split all polygons... I attached a file with which I have problem. Split tool just "disappears" after submitting changes...
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Oct 17, 2013
If you have a collection of balloons you can make them go horizontal or vertical. Is there any way you can make the balloons to go in a 45° angle?
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Mar 2, 2012
Trying to create a multileader callout that doesn't have a landing and the leader axis passes through the center of the ballon circle and not the side. Most the CAD applications I have worked with don't use leaders with "Landings".
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Oct 11, 2011
I 'd like to keep the old Revision table rows available , but off the sheet rather than delete all the rows & start from , let's say, Rev 10.Is this possible in 2012?
Inventor Suite 2013 Ultimate
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Sep 19, 2013
I'm trying to model plug welds in IV2014. I've read all the posts here that say that I need to split the hole faces. Problem is, the split face command doesn't seem to appear in weldments. I want to make the holes to be plugged as a weld preparation. Am I just missing something here, or is IV so backward that a common weld can only be achieved when not working with a weldment?
Inventor Pro 2014 SP1
HP Z400 Workstation
Intel Xeon W3565 @ 3.20GHz
12Gb RAM
Win 7 64 Pro SP1
Spacepilot Pro v3.17.4
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Mar 14, 2013
I have been working for an hour trying to add this split to this part. I have an extruded surface (ExtrusionSrf10) that I need to use as the parting line. When I try this all I get is a "Create parting line failed.....Errors occurred during update".
I have done this many times on other parts, this one is being a pain. I need the split to have two solids when its done. The reason that I want this is so I can sculpt out a portion of this block.
The file is about 15mb. Here is a link to it.
Windows 7 x64 -12 GB Ram
Intel i7-930 @ 3.60ghz
nVidia GTS 250 -1GB (Driver 301.42)
INV Pro R2013, SP1.1 (update1)
Vault Basic 2013
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