Balloon Object

Description

The Balloon object provides the ability to access existing balloons.

Methods

Name	Description
Delete	Method to delete this Balloon.
GetBalloonType	Method that gets the balloon type.
GetReferenceKey	Method that generates and returns the reference key for this entity.
SaveItemOverridesToBOM	Method that saves any overrides to the item values in the balloon to the model BOM. Only the overrides applies to the BallonValueSet.Value property are saved. The value of the OverrideValue property is ignored.
SetBalloonType	Method that sets the balloon type.

Properties

Name	Description
Application	Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
Attached	Property that returns whether the balloon is attached to a component.
AttributeSets	Property that returns the AttributeSets collection object associated with this object.
BalloonValueSets	This property gets the collection of objects. See the BalloonValueSets and BalloonValueSet objects for more information.
Layer
Leader	Property that returns the leader associated with the balloon.
Parent	Property returning the parent sheet (the sheet object this balloon is associated with).
ParentView	Property that returns the parent DrawingView object. In other words, the sheet contains a view with which this balloon is associated.
PlacementDirection
Position
Style
Type	Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

Balloons.Add, Balloons.Item, BalloonValueSet.Parent

Samples

Name	Description
Balloons - edit	This sample demonstrates the editing of balloons in a drawing.
Find component referenced by balloon	This sample demonstrates how to find the component that a balloon references.

Version

Introduced in version 9