Updating Balloons Created with the Auto Balloon Annotation

To update existing balloons with Auto Balloon:

  1. In a drawing view that contains a BOM and balloons that have Item Number as their balloon text, click Insert > Annotations > Auto Balloon. This example shows the inserted auto balloons.
    autoballoon-tool-initial-2.png
  2. In the Auto Balloon PropertyManager, in Edit Balloons:
    1. Select Replace balloons to delete all balloons that have Item Number as their balloon text and insert the balloons as specified by the Auto Balloon PropertyManager.
    2. Select Resequence existing balloons to modify the ordering of the existing balloons.
  3. If you select Replace balloons, you can specify any of the auto balloon parameters. In this example, in Balloon Settings, Style is none and Balloon text is File Name.
    auto-balloon-tool-replaced-2.png
  4. If you select Resequence existing balloons, you can only modify the parameters in Item Numbers, including Start at and Increment, and you can specify to Follow assembly order or Order sequentially. In this example, Start at is 1 and Increment is 1, and Order sequentially is selected.
    auto-balloon-tool-resequence-2.png
  5. Click PM_OK.gif.
To order balloons sequentially, you must have a bill of materials in the drawing.