Remove Color Shading when Ballooning
Under Drawing and Snap Requirement Images Options, deselect the option to Fill Snap Rectangle. This action will remove the shading of the characteristics.
Unhide Balloons when Creating Characteristics
Under Drawing and Snap Requirement Images Options, deselect the option to Hide Balloons. This action will allow you to see the balloons right away if you manually balloon.
Want to assign values to many characteristics?
In the Bill of Characteristics (BoC) multi-select items with a shared data, such as a comment for a group of characteristics or Designed Tooling. Right-click and select Edit Multiple Characteristics. Click the comment field for [...]
Need to create a custom “Class” field?
If you need to add a Class such as N/A or Safety, click BoC and Configure Custom Fields. In the Class value that displays, click the plus sign on the right panel and enter the [...]
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Need to use CMM data in DISCUS?
Obtain a CMM license and under Results click to enable CMM. First, Export to a CSV format, and ensure a column matches your balloon number such as CN column will have 1, 2 , 3. [...]
Need to Reorient PMI for 3D?
If the annotations are skewed or upside down, select an annotation and right-click to set to Orient to Screen and they will be presented properly, perpendicularly!
Have data but all balloons are red (bad data) in BoC?
You probably have a Validator that is warning you. Under Settings and Validator, click to show Any Requirements.
Set the wrong tolerances and then ran IDA™?
No problem, just enter the correct default tolerances under Settings and Profile Settings and then Default Tolerances. Then select all in the BoC and right-click to select the menu item to apply new tolerances.
Run IDA™ on Selected Drawing Pages.
If your drawing has multiple pages and some pages will not be ballooned, then you can exclude pages from being processed. When you run IDA, clic the select pages to include, such as 1-3, 8 [...]
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