Bill of Materials
SolidWorks automatically populates a Bill
of Materials (BOM) with item numbers, quantities, part numbers, and
custom properties in assembly drawings. You can anchor, move, edit, and
split a BOM.
When you insert balloons into a
drawing, the item numbers and quantities in the balloons correspond to
the numbers in the Bill of Materials. If an assembly has more than one
configuration, you can list quantities of components for all configurations
or selected configurations.
You can create BOMs in assembly files and multibody part files. You
can insert a BOM saved with an assembly into a referenced drawing. You
do not need to create a drawing first.