Assembly Balloons

[Talayoe]

Howdy all,

Curious about 2 things, sort of related;

I have an old drawing that was sent to me, inventor drawing, with the standard BOM balloons on it. The person used a bolt connection to produce a bolt/washer & washer/nut and the arrow pointing to this connection shows 4 balloons in a row as shown in the pic below. How do I accomplish this?

Second question, in this same picture you see the washer/nut are terminated (3/4") from the face of the part. I toyed around with this and couldnt get it to work. Created a plane, wont let me grab that. Terminating only seems to let me grab actual part faces. So how do I get a B/C to terminate in a similar fashion?

Thanks!!

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

#1-place a balloon.. right click on it and select attach balloon.. or attach balloon from list.

#2-I don't use bolted con gen so I'm not exactly sure what options are there.. any chance there was another 3/4" part there and the visibility is either turned off or it has been deleted.. and are you sure they even used the bolted con generator.. one could simply use constraints to put the washer/nut pair there too.

[admaiora]

Hi Randy,

hope that it can helps you!

[admaiora]

Ups, sorry,

McGyver preceded me-

[rdyson]

For the balloon, right click, attach balloon

For the other question, perhaps the mating part is just not shown.

[rdyson]

Beat by 2!

[mcgyvr]

There is an echo in here today.. 🙂 

[Talayoe]

Wow. Dont check my email for a while and tons of replies! Thanks all!

The attach balloon, simple and easy. Perfect.

The distance thing....I suppose in that case it was possible that on that drawing someone had a part that was hidden to create the gap. The reason I didnt want to use just standard fasteners and place them manually is that is a lot of constraints to piddle around with. This is a 12 BHC and there is two on this part.. Blah. I might just mock in a dummy block to fill the termination gap.

Thank you again!!