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Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

e_frissell — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:07:03 GMT

So I have a very large assembly that has another assembly in it which is set to phantom (because we want all the parts/assemblies to appear as components on the main assembly) and one of the 'parts' in this phantom assembly is a limit switch assembly. The limit switch assembly is set to purchased because it has multiple sub-components (the sub-components need to be shown in a few different sub-assemblies so with some creative model state work the BOM is accurate).

Now the BOM is all well and good but what is a problem is that all components inside the switch are set to reference, thus they can't be ballooned in the assembly. If setting a BOM structure to purchased means everything is set to reference and thus can't be ballooned, what is the intended use for the purchased BOM structure?

Re: Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

chris — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:12:32 GMT

@e_frissell You can still apply a "manual" balloon to them and then just change the balloon number to whatever you want, but of course, it's manual, so you have to manage it

Re: Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

e_frissell — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:17:36 GMT

I appreciate the suggestion but inevitably I'll forget to change the balloon number and some revision will move something around and then things won't make any sense

Re: Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

jeremy_wasserstrass — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:59:03 GMT

Purchased is an Inseparable type of item so the parts inside of the purchased assembly can be set to Normal and the only part that will balloon will be the assembly itself.

Re: Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

jtylerbc — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:07:12 GMT

@e_frissell wrote:

Now the BOM is all well and good but what is a problem is that all components inside the switch are set to reference, thus they can't be ballooned in the assembly.

Why are the components of the switch set to Reference? Setting the assembly as Purchased doesn't do that - that was done separately.

Just change the components of the switch back to Normal, and I think your problem goes away.

Re: Ballooning Purchased Assembly within Phantom Assembly Inside Main Assembly

e_frissell — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:12:31 GMT

Huh, now this all makes sense - I wonder why I did that. I got really confused when the BOM structure said Default (reference) and had assumed I didn't change it...looks like I must have.

Thanks for the help!