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Assign item numbers and add balloons to panels

Assign item numbers and add balloons to panels

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Assign item numbers and add balloons to panels

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- [Instructor] We're staying in the demo08.DWG file and we're going to look now at checking item numbers and placing balloons onto our panel drawings so that we can obviously itemize each of the elements on a panel drawing, or the footprints that we've already placed. Now you can see some balloons already on the drawing itself, there's an 11, a seven, and a six. Now all of these balloons have the item number in the balloon. So this particular nameplate enclosure has the item number 11, so if I hover over it, right click and hold and go edit footprint, you'll see it has item number 11 there. And that's how it works. Every element on the drawing has an item number. Now if I want to place a balloon against, let's say, one of the new buttons, one of the new nameplate enclosures, I need to go up to the balloon command here, in the insert components footprints panel, on the panel tab on the ribbon. So I'm going to go here to balloon, first of all, and I'm going to select my button here and…

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