Creating BOM Balloons for Family Table Instances
You can create BOM balloons associated with the components that represent Family Table top generic and Family Table generic instances. The asm.mbr.top_generic.name and asm.mbr.generic.name report parameters represent these instances in a report table.
For example, the following assembly contains two instances of the same harness, one with a left-handed route and the other with right-handed route. These harness are represented as 2 different instances of harness.prt in a Family Table. Here the BOM reports the top level generic name of the harness assemblies (HARNESS_ASM) used in a repeat region with the No Duplicate attribute.
You can show BOM balloons associated with the BOM table records that are attached to the Family Table instances. When you create BOM balloons for the first time, a single balloon is created that represents all instances of the Family Table generic and top generic components. However, when you create BOM balloons the second time, each instance of the Family Table generic and top generic components is assigned a balloon with an identical index number.