Bill of Materials
You can insert a Bill of Materials into drawings and assemblies.
A drawing can contain a table-based Bill
of Materials or an Excel-based Bill of
Materials, but not both.
The table-based Bill of Materials is based on SolidWorks tables and includes:
Templates
Anchors
Quantities for configurations
Whether to keep items that have been deleted from
the assembly
Zero quantity display
Excluding assembly components
Following assembly order
Item number
control
Ability
to open parts and assemblies from the table. (Right-click a row and select
Open <model>.)
You can specify a starting Item Number, then set the Increment
value by which the item numbers will increase.
You can change the text in any
cell by double-clicking and editing on screen (the pointer changes to
when you hover over text), but if you edit data generated
by SolidWorks (Item Number, Quantity, and so on), you break the
link between the data and the Bill of Materials.
You
can include detailed weldment cut lists in BOMs.
To set options for a Bill of Materials in the active
document:
Click Options
or Tools > Options
> Document Properties > Tables > Bill
of Materials.
Set options and click OK.
To insert a Bill of Materials into a drawing:
Click
Bill of Materials (Table toolbar), or Insert,
Tables, Bill
of Materials.
Select
a drawing view to specify the model.
Set
the properties in the Bill of Materials
PropertyManager, then click OK
.
If
you did not select Attach to anchor point,
click in the graphics area to place the table.
To insert a Bill of Materials
into an assembly or part:
Click
Bill of Materials (Table toolbar), or Insert,
Tables, Bill
of Materials.
Set
the properties in the Bill of Materials
PropertyManager, then click OK
.
Click
in the graphics area to place the table.
To exclude assembly components
from a Bills of Materials:
In
the assembly document, right-click the component and click Component
Properties .
In
the Component Properties dialog box,
select Exclude from bill of materials,
then click OK.
You can
dissolve subassemblies and combine like components in BOMs.
To change the value of
a custom property in a BOM:
To use
custom properties in BOMs, you must set the custom properties in the part
files.
Double-click a cell of
a BOM column that is linked to a custom property.
Related
Topics
Bill of Materials Excel-Based Overview
Bill of Materials Sort
Document
Properties - Bill of Materials
Detailed
Weldment Cut Lists in Bills of Materials