Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Hi,

I have an assembly made, but its to be welded and I did not want to change it to a weldment for simplicity within the drawing environment. But anyway; I have 4 parts in the assembly, and in the parts list I added a custom part for the weld material.

Now I also added the weld annotations in their correct locations, but I was wondering if there was a way to add a balloon to the weld symbol. In the little note section behind the weld symbol, I would put a floating balloon which would specify the material of the weld.

This was done on older drawings in autocad, but inventor wants me to tie the balloon to a part so I cant really figure this out.

Can anyone help?

[#2]

You can add the balloon and just overwrite the item number with whatever you want.

Or in the styles editor create a specific balloon type/style and use this for only these type cases.

Hope this makes sense.

[#3]

HI vsookrah,

I addition to the previous suggestion you can select the custom part by following these clicks:

1. Click to place the balloon arrowhead
2. Click to place the balloon
3. Right-click and choose Custom / Virtual
4. Right-click again and choose Continue.
5. Select the check box for the custom part from the list in the dialog box
6. Click OK in the dialog box

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#4]

I guess I wasnt clear in my original description.

I know how to do the custom part ballooning, but I'd like to create a detattched balloon. Just a simple balloon with no leader, but I dont have an option to do that.

Is this even possible

[#5]

HI vsookrah,

The only thing I can think of would be a custom Sketched Symbol with a prompted entry, into which you'd add the custom part information. It wouldn't be tied to the BOM though.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#6]

I don't think that is possible.  Seeing the balloon wants association to a part through the BOM.

What I am thinking is you can do this if you have a block created in ACAD just insert it into your Inventor drawing.