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Adding balloons to specify parts on an assembly drawing

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Adding balloons to specify parts on an assembly drawing

- Once we've created a new drawing for our assembly we've added a Bill of Materials, and we made sure that we got the correct part numbers as well as descriptions on our individual items. Now we're ready to start adding some balloons to identify each part. Come up here to balloon, go ahead and click on each individual part, and go ahead and just place the balloon, and notice that it automatically links to which item is in the Bill of Materials. And I just go around my part like this, click on each item, and if you ever forget which items are missing, you can always go down to the table and click them. This is the last one here, so I generally go through and just count them all up, so, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, come down to my Bill of Materials, and I do have six items, so that's exactly what I'm looking for. Now, you can also rearrange your Bill of Materials. Notice it's not in order, so I can take this 2.1, click on it and just drag it up here to the top. Put that first 2.2, put that…

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