BUBBLE NUMBERS block function?

[zale_orcid]

Looking to add bubble number call outs to an assembly…

i have about 200 #'s I need to call out that are constantly changing and have the BOM to go with it… anyone with the right place to go for this??

[zale_orcid]

I think I looked into a BOM script/generator and Im not sure it worked well… but maybe there is a plugin out there?

[Dancergraham (Graham Knapp)]

Hello,
@gijs has been doing some great work experimenting with callouts here:

Adding annotation balloons to page with block items

thanks @lando.schumpich it’s still quite simple in its current state though, it’s more a concept. But anyway here it is: annotationBalloon.py (4.4 KB) One of the ideas for next steps would be not generate the parts list directly, but rather recording it. The list that is generated includes item count that updates automatically when adding more of the same blocks.

Is that the kind of thing you are looking for? What’s a BOM?

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@Dancergraham

What’s a BOM?

That’s a bill of materials - basically the table that Gijs has in his script.
-wim

[Gijs (Gijs de Zwart)]

@zale_orcid here you will find a more recent version.:

Page Layout Tools

On this page I am collecting page layout tools that I am working on regularly. All latest versions of these scripts can be downloaded from my github. Advised is to download github for desktop to keep the files in synch with any changes and bugfixes. 01 add_detail_scale.py Adds scale info as a caption to a (preselected) detail 02 annotation_balloon.py This tool adds annotation balloons to Blockitems on a page. After that you can run addPartList.py script (below) to add a part list 03 add_pa…

Let me know if this works for you.
It won’t add or update numbers automatically though. But the generation of a part list is working quite well with a one button click.
If you have an assembly though with 200+ parts I doubt it will work but in that case I think it is a matter of dividing your design in sub assemblies.