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>.)
- Ability to lock the BOM.
You can specify a starting Item
Number, then set the Increment
value by which the item numbers will increase.
You can include detailed weldment cut lists in BOMs.