Ihave an assembly with bulk items, usually cables or other miscellaneous electrical components. These bulk items are called out in my BOM. The problem is thatI cannot make a balloon for a bulk item.
What I have been doing is making a 'fake' BOM balloon. I do this bycreating a symbol with fields that I can hardcode the part # and qty. However, ifI change the BOM, these symbols will not update accordingly.
I was thinking I could create a parameter inside the BOM to hold the value for the part number and quantity. Something like this:
The problem is that the parameter (partnumber_index) is only a local parameter, local to the repeat region. At least I think it is, I could be wrong there. Anyway, I tried to use this parameter in my symbol, setting the text field as "&partnumber_index". What the symbol wrote was exactly what I typed, it didn't change to be the index for the bulk item.
I was wondering how I could maybe make this work better or where I had gone astray. Thanks for your help.
Thanks
Edited by: mrfrog
What I have been doing is making a 'fake' BOM balloon. I do this bycreating a symbol with fields that I can hardcode the part # and qty. However, ifI change the BOM, these symbols will not update accordingly.
I was thinking I could create a parameter inside the BOM to hold the value for the part number and quantity. Something like this:
Code:
if asm_mbr_name = "partnumber"
partnumber_index = rpt.index
endifThe problem is that the parameter (partnumber_index) is only a local parameter, local to the repeat region. At least I think it is, I could be wrong there. Anyway, I tried to use this parameter in my symbol, setting the text field as "&partnumber_index". What the symbol wrote was exactly what I typed, it didn't change to be the index for the bulk item.
I was wondering how I could maybe make this work better or where I had gone astray. Thanks for your help.
Thanks
Edited by: mrfrog