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I think you would be really useful to have an interface that attaches text to balloons. Something like the image below where you can attach it to any side.
It would be nice if you double click the balloon and attach whatever you need. It would also never lose the link to the balloon.
Add notes before/after balloons without fancy workarounds. With this functionality, a person could add installation comments to item numbers, quantity number, etc.
Good Point, I tried that and it works well for a single balloon, but I couldnt get it to work correctly with stacked balloons (confirmed by autodesk support when I presented the issue to them). The issue I had was that snap locations for the stacked balloons are not correct and I couldnt figure out how to over-ride or disable to autosnap for the leader text (try to add notes to balloons stacks of 3 or 4). Unless somebody knows how to override autosnap? (and for some reason, if I delete the leader attached to a balloon, I lose the position connection to the leader?)
This is a very useful suggestion. Just the ability to spatially link any two drawing view elements via right click would be useful to my company. We spend unnecessary time repositioning text boxes and user defined symbols (for significant characteristics for example) when drawing views change. Most of the time the symbols/text needs to follow a balloon or dimension.
This is a very useful suggestion. Just the ability to spatially link any two drawing view elements via right click would be useful to my company. We spend unnecessary time repositioning text boxes and user defined symbols (for significant characteristics for example) when drawing views change. Most of the time the symbols/text needs to follow a balloon or dimension.
It would also be convenient if there was a quantity number like in the hole and thread feature where Inventor would find the number of that object in the view or pattern.
This was accepted over 4 years ago and still nothing. I’ve been told many time over the years by Autodesk they were going to add something in the next couple versions but it never happens. I started with Inventor R2 and they still haven’t implemented things they said back then that was going to be added soon. If Autodesk is not going to change something I wish they would just be honest and say “I don’t see it being added in the foreseeable future”.
This is my number one most-desired feature for Inventor! I'd like to add that, given that my group uses full part numbers in balloons, I would like this feature to support the simple addition of parentheses around a part number, while not overriding the balloon's value. I can see this requiring a custom balloon type to work properly; however, the availability of the editable text is key.
I am sure this one has been asked before. We need a way to add a quantity field next to balloons. Ideally it would be parametric to the BOM, but even the ability to just have a field outside the balloon would be useful at this point.
I realize there would be a lot involved to add it to the balloon command directly, so how about a NEW command that appends the balloon with the additional field instead, since it isn't always needed?
Is there a reason why just creating a two-field balloon style doesn't take care of what you need? It doesn't look like exactly what you're describing, but it's a currently existing feature that is already associative to the BOM.
Thanks. That symbol already has a defined purpose for GD&T (though I have rarely seen it used) and is not intended to use for QTY even though many have used it as a workaround.
I guess it does look rather like a datum target, but that's just a two-line balloon straight out of the dropdown list of shapes in the Inventor Styles Editor. Quantity is even the default for the second field. I did not insert a datum target symbol and change a property to QTY, or any odd workarounds like that.
I would think it would generally be clear from context which is which. I don't recall ever seeing a quantity of "A" or a datum "3", for example. I suppose it could be a problem if you had both on the same drawing, but that seems like it would be incredibly rare.
If it doesn't work for you, then it doesn't work for you. But I don't think it's as substandard to do it that way as you're thinking.
That would be relatively easy if it were a small team, however I have thousands of users worldwide all using one corporate standard and some are using different packages besides Inventor. Deviating just for Inventor doesn't make sense. We also have hundreds of vendors, so moving from an already documented style based on International standards, to a split balloon for the sake of a software limitation and then having to document and explain it to all parties is not really a good path.
I've used the mentioned workaround for smaller teams at a former company, but it isn't feasible in the current use case, which is why I'm asking Autodesk to investigate what it would take to give us a proper fix long term. Previously, we used a custom symbol to get around this limitation. I discussed with the Inventor PD team last year and they explained why it isn't a simple fix, so I understand. Looking for some visibility to the issue, which has always existed.
