- [Instructor] Once we have a bill of materials
added to our drawing,
now is the time to add some balloons
to show which component corresponds to which row
in our bill of materials.
Now over here in my bill of materials,
you can see I've gone in and added all the descriptions.
I've added all the revisions and just make sure
that all of my parts are so ordered and looking nice.
If you did need to go back
to any one of these components here,
you could just click on the row it's in,
right click, and then say Open.
That part should open up and go ahead
and come up here to Custom Properties.
You can fill out
any of the custom property names you'd like.
We have a whole bunch of 'em inside of here.
And in fact, you can even customize that menu
if you'd like.
Once you're done, click OK,
get back out of that part here.
Let's go ahead and save the changes.
And now it's back over here and it should be updated
if you made any changes.
I didn't make any changes,
so it looks exactly the same.
All right, now let's start adding some balloons.
So click on Balloon right up here.
And as soon as I add that balloon,
so it happens, I click here
and it grabs the corresponding row.
So right over here is row 15
and it says it is the pusher and that is the correct item.
So that's how we know which item is which
and we can look at the corresponding row over here.
So same thing I can just keep going through here
and just start adding all these different balloons as we go.
So as we start billing things up,
you want to do it in somewhat logical fashion.
You can go on either side, doesn't matter.
You just want to choose either edges or faces.
Notice this balloon here has a little pointer
and if you choose a face itself like a face, this one here,
it makes a little dot.
So see the dot here, 'cause it's choosing a face
or if you choose an edge actually makes an arrow.
So depending on how you want your balloons to be attached
and look, that's how you would add those in.
The next thing I want to point out
is this thing called a magnetic line.
So notice these guys are fairly organized
but they're not exactly perfect.
If you want to make your balloons
look a little bit more organized,
you can use a magnetic line.
So click on Magnetic Line over here.
And this is just a line that will snap
onto all the balloons.
Actually the balloons will snap onto it.
So watch this.
As I get close to the balloons,
they just start snapping onto my magnetic line.
And then I can use that line to control
where the balloons are.
Let go.
I can rearrange them easily
by moving the magnetic line around.
Click OK when you're done.
And then if you can always go back
and click on these components here
and rearrange where they are.
Grab a balloon, snap it over to the magnetic line.
You can make the little magnetic line shorter, longer.
You can rotate it around.
You can move the entire line closer or further away.
So it just makes it an easy way
to make all of the balloons look nice
and be in a straight line and be controlled.
And you can have multiple magnetic lines.
I can do another one over here
and snap these two balloons to the magnetic line,
make a vertical and looks pretty good.
So that's how you can quickly add magnetic lines
and balloons to your drawings.
Now I'm going to go ahead and delete all these balloons.
Let's get rid of these guys and these guys over here.
Now, SolidWorks also has the ability to do auto ballooning.
So I got this entire Exploder view here,
click on that and click over here to auto balloon
and just that quickly,
it automatically balloons
every single thing in that drawing.
So it's pretty handy, quick way to do it.
And you can notice over here,
we can increment and start a certain numbers.
We can choose how we want to pattern these around.
We can put 'em all at the top
or all at the side or at the bottom.
So you can do a whole bunch of things
of how you might want to do this.
Now we have almost 30 parts here.
So when you got that many parts,
sometimes it gets a little bit crowded here.
So probably that one that goes
all the way around the perimeter is probably the best bet.
I do find though that sometimes if you use auto balloon
that it's really not the most optimal scheme.
So click on OK, and then of course you can go over here
and click on any one of these balloons
or the magnetic lines that automatically adds
and you can adjust them.
So this looks like there's a lot of lines
that cover over other components.
And I don't like to see that.
So I prefer to not use auto balloon
but it does have the ability to add a lot of balloons
really quickly, and obviously all those things are there.
So if you're in a hurry, use the auto balloon,
otherwise I'd prefer to actually go through
and manually add those balloons,
make it look nice and organized and clean,
and then just make sure you've got a balloon
for every one of the item in the bill of materials.
Or if it doesn't have an item
or sometimes you have like a hidden item
or something like that, you can't see,
you might want to at least put a note
or some kind of thing showing that this item is hidden.
You can also go back and go to your assembly.
I'm going to go ahead and open up real quick.
Here's my assembly.
If there's an item you didn't want to include.
So like say this item right here.
If you come over here to Component Properties,
you have the option down here to exclude
from bill of materials.
So if you want to do that,
click on that button and then that item
will not show up in the bill of materials.
So sometimes there's like hidden items
or you're just using maybe a part for a reference part
and you don't want to show up,
turn that little check box right there on
and then it won't show up back in the bill of materials.
Heading back over here.
The next step here what I'd do is go in
and just clean up my balloon.
So they look a little bit cleaner.
Make sure that my bomb is organized, looking good.
I make sure I've got good titles down here and I do.
And then I'll be all set and ready to move on the next step.