From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Auto-add item quantity to balloons

Auto-add item quantity to balloons - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Auto-add item quantity to balloons

- [Instructor] Did you know you can automatically add the quantity of individual items on a of build materials right to your balloons? It's really easy. Let me show you how to do it. Head up over here to, in your Drawing view, you're in an assembly drawing. If you click on balloon, and traditionally you just click on the item, and it's going to add like the balloon that is number two or number one. But you might not know if you actually click on the balloon, right over here is this little check mark. If you just click on that, it'll automatically tell you how many of each one of those those things there are. Again, it's a pretty quick little tip here, but a lot of people have not figured out that this little check box is right here and you can quickly add that, and it really improves your drawings 'cause you can see right over here ITEM NO. 2, there's three of 'em, and having that right shown on the screen really…

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