How to create BOM Table and Balloons in Creo Parametric Drawing

Bill of Material a.k.a ‘BOM’ is a comprehensive list of raw materials, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies, parts, or anything which is required to manufacture the finished product.

In this Tech Tip, we will show you how to create BOM Table and Balloons in Creo Parametric Drawing. You will also know ‘Recursive’ type BOM Table.

You can go through following steps or view this Video directly to know about BOM Table and Balloons.

The User Case

In the figure below, the Hydraulic Crane assembly is shown with two views – one main view and another exploded view. This assembly contains total 14 components and 3 subassemblies. We can show all this information in the Creo drawing with BOM Table and Balloons.

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Figure 1: Two views of Hydraulic Crane Assembly

Observe below steps to achieve the required result –

Step 1

Open the file hydraulic_crane.asm

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Type in the following texts in the upper second, third and fourth table cells and change their text style as per the step 12

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Select ‘Repeat Region’ command from the Data Group of ‘Table’ tab

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Select ‘Add’ option from the Menu Manager

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Following message log will display

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Select the corners of the repeat region as shown

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Observe that the repeat region highlights after clicking one of the repeat regions cells

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Select the First cell from the repeat region, right click and then select ‘Report Parameter’

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Select the report symbol ‘rpt’ followed by ‘index’

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For second cell of repeat region, enter following report parameters

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For third cell of repeat region, enter following report parameters

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For fourth cell of repeat region, enter following report parameters

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For all four cells of repeat region, change the text style as per step 12 and then the table should look as follows

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Select ‘Update Tables’ command from the ‘Data’ group of ‘Table’ tab

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The table will update as follows

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Select ‘Repeat Region’ command from the ‘Data’ group of ‘Table’ tab

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Then select the repeat region

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Select the ‘No Duplicates’ option from the Menu Manager and then Select ‘Done/Return’

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Repeat steps 28 to 30.

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The table updates as follows

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Select ‘Create Balloons – All’ option from the ‘Balloons’ group of Table tab

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Rearrange the created balloons and then the drawing will look as follows