Generating Balloons and a Bill of Material

This task will show you how to do the following:

insert the Advanced Bill of Material into the active view. This advanced Bill of Material can be customized to display the required columns apart from the default columns.
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.
- generate balloons in the active view. Balloons correspond to references defined on the different components of an assembly.

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.

Insert Advanced Bill of Material

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

Select Insert > Generation > Bill Of Material > Advanced Bill of Material.
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.
Optionally zoom the drawing to take a closer look at the balloons and/or the Bill of Material.

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.

Select Insert > Generation > Bill Of Material > Bill of Material.
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.
Optionally zoom the drawing to take a closer look at the balloons and/or the Bill of Material.

Generate Balloons

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

command.

Click Generate Balloons in the Generation toolbar.

The balloons are automatically generated onto the active view.