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Re: Creating Your BOM Template

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Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Downriver1900 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:10 -0000

How do you get a drawing file with multiple sheets to have their own BOM and the ballons to actually match the BOM on the sheet?

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

gcp — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:11:36 -0000

I have an issue I can't figure out... My BOM is showing QTY of 602 for item 3. Should only be 1 - it's taking the part number for item 3 (602-002035) and making the prefix the quanity! Any suggestions?

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Dave Powell — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:46:45 -0000

Is there a way to assign letters to items instead of numbers?

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Stemlerscott63 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:53:35 -0000

Nice info
any info available on how to make a part number column and a separate description column?
How should file name be set-up to do this?

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

farkhan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:47:42 -0000

what about insert bom of size material include material

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Alex R. Ruiz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:33:25 -0000

Hi Robert,

There are a couple of things you can do. First, you can cut and paste
the entire BOM onto another sheet of the drawing. Select the Cross in
the upper left corner of the BOM and select CTRL-X. Change sheets and
press CTRL-V to paste the BOM.

You can also split the BOM and paste only half of the BOM on a second
sheet. Check out this post on splitting a BOM:
http://www.theswgeek.com/20...

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

ircsmith — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:53:53 -0000

Thank you very much. This helped out a lot.

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Robert Roach — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:04:24 -0000

We have a serious problem with room on the sheet. Sometimes the assembly is too big or the sheet is too small to insert a BOM onto the same sheet. So far I have found nothing to show me how to place the BOM onto a second sheet.
HELP!!

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Filipe Venceslau — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:16:42 -0000

Hi! Very good post! Thanks for sharing!
I am currently making up a BOM list (for production purposes).
My BOM type is "Parts Only", so I get a list of all my parts.
Now in my main assembly, I have one custom property which is called Quantity, which basically is the total amount required of that final product (which consists of a group of parts as well).
Every part also has a custom property called quantity, so my bill of materials tells me how many parts I need for 1 assembly.
I have two rows for quantities, one for a single assembly, and one for the total amount of assemblies required. I was thinking of making a formula like:
Total quantity = Single quantity * assembly quantity
This would work perfectly, however...I can't seem to find a way to link to that Main assembly custom property or any for that mater. All the other custom properties I can link to no problem and calculate stuff, but I'd like to know if there's a way of reading custom properties from a specific assembly, when it's not in the BOM list.

Thanks in advance

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Fernando Vanetti — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:09:35 -0000

when i try to save a BOM template it shows a "The file name is not valid".
If i choose to save as a .xml file it works ok.

Any ideia?!

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Alex R. Ruiz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:05:59 -0000

I am glad I could be of assistance. :)

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Steve — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:17:56 -0000

Good stuff! I needed this!

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Alex R. Ruiz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:09:42 -0000

Thank you, i tried. I know itz an area alot of people have trouble with.

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

TX80 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:13:06 -0000

Good stuff. very detailed.

Re: Creating Your BOM Template

Josh — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:39:49 -0000

Man, very comprehensive! I'd also suggest the checkbox for "Dont Copy Qty..." - this will prevent your config names showing up in the Qty section. Great job on covering all the detail too!