Finding missing BOM balloons in drawing

[wgraham]

Anyone know how to check if a balloon is hidden in a break view.  The balloon is attached to a piece of geometry, but the geometry isn't visible on the sheet.  I can't use the Attached property of the balloon or the Ballooned property of the parts list because it is attached to a hidden drawing curve.  Leader information appears to be intact as well.  

[chandra.shekar.g]

@wgraham,

Can you please provide drawing document with Model to investigate? please make sure that files are non confidential.

Thanks and regards,

[wgraham]

Chandra,

Please see attached assembly/drawing. If you check the part list,
everything is ballooned. Unfortunately, they are attached to geometry
inside the break operation and not visible. If they aren't visible they
shouldn't be flagged as ballooned. If you can point me in the right
direction to programmatically move them out of the break operation, it
would probably work in our case.

(See attached file: samplepart.ipt)(See attached file: sampleassembly.iam)
(See attached file: sampleassembly.dwg)

Thanks,
William Graham

[chandra.shekar.g]

@wgraham,

For some reason, attachments are missing. Can you please reattach files again?

It seems that files are bigger in size. So, please upload the files to Google drive, Git hub or some other repository.

Thanks and regards,

[wgraham]

See link below, but it's not that hard to replicate.

1. Create a drawing
2. Add drawing view & part list
3. Balloon any part in the drawing view.
4. Create a break view with the balloon attachment inside the break area
5. The part list will show the part as ballooned, but the balloon will be
no where to be found

We end up manually checking part lists versus balloons because copied
design can cause break views to shift slightly. If the shift encompasses a
balloon the balloon disappears.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TyHgHBaGMXzuEbfJVl8uZEDyS_5xpo0N?usp=sharing


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[chandra.shekar.g]

@wgraham,

Missing balloons can be found using below VBA code. Unfortunately, balloons are not visible when break section is drawn on balloon (As designed).

Sub Balloon_Visisblity()
    Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument
    Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    
    Dim oSheet As Sheet
    Set oSheet = oDoc.ActiveSheet
    
    Dim oBalloon As Balloon
    Set oBalloon = oSheet.Balloons.Item(1)
End Sub

Please log this wish list at idea station using below link.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

Thanks and regards,

[freesbee]

...this is a wonderful tip, that will drive me much ahead in my current task, thank you so much!

What I am not able to understand is how to enumerate those balloons that are attached to other balloons. For example in the situation under here 407 and 408 are definitely referring to the correct PartlistROW, but they are ignored by the ActiveSheet.Balloons collection, and I am not able to identify the right way to catch them.

Any idea?

how to catch balloons attached to other balloons?

[freesbee]

...just noticed that a very kind user has posted the solution to this question as well a few hours ago balloons attached to other balloons .

Many thanks!