From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Engineering Drawings

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Balloon and auto balloon

Balloon and auto balloon - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Balloon and auto balloon

- [Instructor] Another great set of features inside of SOLIDWORKS drawings are the balloon and auto balloon features. With these features, you can create balloons in a drawing document or in a note. These balloons label the parts and assembly and relate them to item numbers in a bill of materials. Let's take a look at how this features work together. If we go up to the top of our Command Manager, we see in the Annotation tab the balloon feature and just like so many other features inside of SOLIDWORKS, if we hover over it, it does give us a description of how the feature works. I'm going to go ahead and click on it and it's going to open the feature in the Property Manager on the left. We'll notice right away as we go over to our drawing area that we do see a preview of what the balloon will look like. So we see a circular balloon with two characters and it also has a quantity listing to the right of it, which is…

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