Creating Associative Balloons on Views From Products

This task will show you how to create associative balloons on views generated from a product.
Open the Product_Balloon CATProduct document from the /online/Samples/GenDrafting directory.

On this catproduct, Product Structure sub-products have already been assigned numbers (Generate Numbering icon).
1. Go to Generative Drafting workbench by opening Product_Balloon.CATDrawing document from the /online/Samples/GenDrafting directory.

2. Click the Balloon icon I_DrwBalloonP2.gif (221 bytes) from the Annotations toolbar (Texts subtoolbar).

3. Go over one of the part with your cursor.
All the edges on all the views extracted from the part are highlighted.
4. Create a balloon by selecting an edge.
The number of the balloon corresponds to the number of the subproduct created in the product which the views were generated from. In this particular example, even though the balloon you are creating is the first one, it is assigned number four as it is applied to subproduct number four.
Note that if you modify the numbering in the product and then regenerate the product, the balloon modification will be applied to the generated views only after you perform a view update.