Balloon numbers linked to custom properties

G'day,
I am trying to write a assembling procedure within the design journal
of an assembly drawing and I want to refer to each part by it's
respective balloon number. Trouble is that every time I make a change
to the assembly I have to manually update the changed balloon numbers
of the parts. Is there anyway to link the balloon number so that I can
insert a hyperlink to the balloon number property into the document?
I thought of using a general table but I would still need a custom
property linked to the balloon number of each component.
Hope that makes sense.
Regards,
PJ.

 

NO. There is no way to link the part number in an assembly model back to
the part to update whenever the assy changes. I sure wish there was and
is probably on 95% of everyones wish list.

 

Agreed. The only, very poor, alternative is to manually place some balloons
and then format your text around them so it looks like they are actually in
the note. Hardly worth the time, though, in my opinion, and certainly not
acceptable for a large assy.

WT

 

I don't know too much about this stuff, but maybe something via the SW
API could go through and update things for you. Then you wouldn't have
to manually update it. Can you explain exactly what you are trying to
do in a way that even a non-SW user could do it? I'm not new, but the
description is far better off being to specific than too light.

 

The text handling in 2006 is, dare I say it - bordering on the bad old days
of Acad13.
It's quite disappointing to have continual flakey text & formatting issues
that just seem to roll on from one release to the next.
I feel it's taken a step backwards in 2006. My Arial narrow font that looked
fine in 2005 seems to now to be styled on a badly pixilated comic book
format

 

..

Nev

There's a setting in the 2006 options that puts the model text front on.
Default is aligned with the dimension and looks pixelated.

..... one of the first things I asked support!

 

I found that a while back.
I was really commenting on alot of niggly other text & Bom stuff