Including part balloons in an assembly drawing

Balloons work with bill of materials and show where each item is located in the…corresponding item number.…SolidWorks can even AutoBalloon your drawing for you.…To get started, we should already have a drawing of the assembly and a bill of…materials on the drawing.…As you can see, we finished off the Exploded View and the bill of materials in…the last couple of movies, so we're ready to add balloons now, and this is…probably the last step in creating a nice drawing.…And generally, you don't want to add balloons before you really have a pretty…nice finalized bill of materials, because if we start adding additional items…here, they're not going to have a corresponding balloon.…

So we'll need to go back and add those in later.…So my recommendation is, make sure you've got your bill of materials looking…pretty solid before you go to the ballooning step.…Let's go over a couple of options for adding balloons.…Now, balloons are going to be under Annotations.…So we've got Balloon as well as AutoBalloon.…