I have populted the Parts List for the small assembly that I have. I need to label each part with an Item and Qty. But I need the qtys listed as each number. (i.e. - if Item number 8 has qty. 2 I need one ballon to be 8/1 and the other to be 8/2. (see attached jpg (What I Want Qty.jpg). I have gone into the Edit Ballon Style and changed it to the Circular - 2 Entries so I can have the Item number on the top and the qty on the bottom. But I have tried every single Qty in the Available Properties and none of them will do what I need. Please see attached for the various ones I have tried. (It will only let me attach 3 files). The one called "Base Qty.jpg" is what happens with both Base Qty. as well as Unit Qty. The one labeled "Item Qty.jpg" is what happens when I use both Item Qty. as well as Qty. None of the choices available do what I need which is labeled as "What I Want Qty.jpg". Does anyone know of a setting that I may be missing or an add-in to do this? Our customer is the one requiring it. We can put these in manually with a sketched symbol but then the balloons will not be linked to the Parts List. I did search all thru these forum for almost 2 hours before posting this. I am using 2014 Inventor Proffesional.
Thanks!
Veronica
no possible "automatically" that I know..
Its kind of a silly customer request IMO.. Not sure of the point besides just additional busy work..
Maybe possible with ilogic code but I don't know..
I feel for you, however this is whack. In the event there are many parts involved these quantities would do you no good whatsoever. I mean, they basically want the balloons to go through and count themselves off like "Hi, I'm number 3!"
This is not possible with out of box install as others have commented on this. You can submit this request here to be considered for future release, http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794
or post it to the ideas station.
Regards,
Don
Veronica,
Whats the intent of this functionality?
or what benefit does it provide your customer?
I just can't see any point in that functionality at all other than maybe the order in which those parts are installed? Thats the only thing I can think of...
We make separate spool drawings for each section so we label each item with its own qty number 1, 2, 3 etc. We also use the same spool drawing to make our weld map and you have to have different identifiers. If you have 3 flanges that are all Item 8 and the weld map has 3 different welds for all 3 we have to let them know which goes to which.