Auto Balloons
You can use auto balloons to
automatically generate balloons in a drawing view.
Insert a set of balloons
into one or more drawing views. Balloons are inserted into the appropriate
views without duplicates. You can specify
that balloons be inserted when creating new drawing views.
You can drag a group of balloons
or a single balloon.
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To insert balloons into a drawing view:
Click Auto Balloon
on the Annotation toolbar, or click Insert,
Annotations, Auto
Balloon.
Select
a drawing view in which you want to insert the balloons.
Set properties in the Auto
Balloon PropertyManager.
Drag a
balloon to increase or decrease the leader lengths for all of the balloons.
Click OK
.
The balloons are placed outside the view border, and the leaders do
not intersect.
Once you close the PropertyManager, you:
Cannot open it again to change the layout
(Square, Circular,
etc.) of the balloons. You can delete the balloons or undo the auto balloon
command, then reinsert the balloons.
Can
edit the balloons individually or as a selected group.
To specify that balloons be inserted into new drawing
views:
Click Options
, Document Properties,
Detailing.
Under Auto insert
on view creation, select Balloons,
then click OK.
To specify the default layout for auto balloons:
Click Options
, Document Properties,
Annotations, Balloons.
Under Auto balloon
layout, select one of the formats, then click OK.
You can override these settings
in the PropertyManager.