Auto balloon - Ignore Multiple Instances not working as expected

[Anonymous]

For some reason in Inventor Professional 2018.3.1 (Build: 284) the Auto Balloon option Ignore Multiple Instances in the Drawing environment does not work.

I would expect selecting occurrences in an other view with this option unticked, would allow to again perform an Auto Balloon operation for all visible items.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I vaguely remember seeing an issue like this but I thought it was fixed. Do you mind sharing an example showing the behavior?

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

I misinterperet the "Ignore Multiple Instances" tickbox. I now understand what is implied here. It will not balloon the same reference multiple times in one view.

What I wanted, is use the Auto Balloon feature again in another view and Ignore the option that it has already a balloon in another view. Does that make sense?

[] Ignore Balloons in other Views

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! It should work within the same view or different views of the same assembly. Could you share an example exhibiting the behaviors you are seeing?

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

I just ran into this issue. Very frustrating when trying to make assembly instruction documents.

Whether or not the "Ignore Multiple Instances" option is checked, you cannot fully auto-balloon two views of the same presentation.

I've attached an example set of files. I'm using Inventor 2020 professional.

@johnsonshiue 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! This is a bug. It should work. I am able to reproduce the behavior. I will work with the project team to understand the behavior better. In the meantime, please use Balloon command instead. I am sorry for the trouble.

Many thanks!

[-niels-]

Possible workaround, though you'll end up with disconnected views:

After creating the desired views of the assembly and ballooning the main/first view:
(you can't balloon the same parts on your other views now)
- Start a new idw;
- Copy the view you want to add balloons to from the original drawing to this new drawing;
- Add balloons to the view on this new drawing;
- When done, copy the view again and paste it on the original drawing.

In my test the original view got suppressed automatically, it might need to be deleted instead.
I'll warn again that the view is now disconnected from any parent view it might have had.

Hope it helps in some way though.

[JMGunnar]

Any update 

Any resolve ?

remove this options if it not work from Inventor 2018

Best regards Johan 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Johan,

I took a closer look at this issue. I think there is probably some misunderstanding of how things work. Auto-Balloon only allows you to create a set of balloons within a view. If you want to annotate more than one view of the same assembly, you will need to do it manually. Auto-Balloon will not help.

Regarding "Ignore Multiple Instances" option, when the option is checked, the multiple instances of the same part will not get the same balloons. Only one instance will get it. When the option is unchecked, all instances will be ballooned.

Many thanks!

[JMGunnar]

Thanks   @johnsonshiue 

I have  misunderstanding of how things work.

Johan