Dear all, in my idw there are some parts used several times. I would like to use automatic balloons (to not forget some part) and merge/consolidate the balloons for some parts who have the same number as shown in the pic3. I tried it manually with the function add leader, but this will often go wrong, because Inventor doesn't control, whether this is the same part as shown in pic2. I would prefer to consolidate/merge the balloons manually after having used automatic balloons, because then, I can do it meaningful. For this second step it would be perfect when the balloons with the same part number are "magnetic" so that I can melt these (and only these!) to one balloon. This would avoid wrong labeling in the drawing and then I can move the balloon like a balloon with several leaders (at the moment, with add leader it can go wrong and works the other way round). At the moment, it seems only to be possible to achieve it optical (move one balloon over the other by drag&drop while zooming for best result), but there is no functionality that the balloons are then really one (I would expect to move them from then on at once). Not even there is a magnetic function in the drag&drop so that the two balloons are exactly congruent(=optical exactly one over the other) by behaving still different balloons with (may be) different numbers - then I could see if something is wrong with the numbers. There is only a functionality of positioning vertically, horizontaly,.... but all one aside the other - this is no help in my case. But may be here is the place for adding "congruent" - this could be the first improvement without the functionality of control. Then I can see, if there are balloons overlapping that have different numbers. By the way, for todays solution, I will mark the similar parts in one special color and use automatic balloons with option "Ignore Multiple Instances". This combination helps for better overview. Kind regards, Karoline
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