Bill of Materials Overview
A bill of materials (BOM) is a tabular listing of the components of
a SolidWorks assembly, drawing, or weldment part.
You can work with these types of BOMs in Enterprise PDM:
Computed
BOMs are automatically calculated
from the SolidWorks components contained in an assembly or drawing. The
computed BOM includes internal components, such as drawing parts and virtual
parts. Computed BOMs reflect BOM exclusions you make in the SolidWorks
assembly and components.
SolidWorks
BOMs are BOM tables in assemblies
and drawings. When you exclude components from a SolidWorks BOM, the Enterprise
PDM BOM tab does not list those components.
Named
BOMs are editable BOMs that you
create from computed BOMs or SolidWorks BOMs. You can check
in and check out named BOMs and
maintain revision records in your enterprise using automated workflow
processes. Named BOMs are specific to the version of the assembly or drawing used to create
them. You can update a named BOM to a new version of the assembly or drawing.
Weldment
Cut Lists and Weldment BOMs are
for weldment parts. A weldment BOM lists each component in the weldment
part with its total length. A cut list contains the cut lengths and quantities
of the components.
Note: Enterprise PDM
requires SolidWorks 2009 or later files for displaying SolidWorks BOMs,
Weldment BOMs, and Weldment Cut Lists, for updating named BOMs, and for
many named BOM editing features.
BOM Templates
Your administrator can create custom column layouts using BOM templates.
There are templates for computed BOMS, Weldment BOMs, and Weldment Cut
Lists. Each
BOM template your administrator creates can have different data card
variables displayed in the BOM columns.
For example:
Enterprise PDM administrators can use the Enterprise PDM workflow to
set up the export of one or more types of BOMs to an XML format for use
with other ERP systems.
Controlling Access to BOMs
Your Enterprise PDM administrator can allow or deny user access to different
BOM features or specific BOM types using the Enterprise PDM Administration
tool.
To select a bill of materials:
Select a drawing, assembly, or weldment part from
the file
view of the Windows Explorer.
On the Bill of
Materials tab, select a BOM from the BOM
list.
Related Topics
Searching BOMs
Comparing BOMs
Exporting
BOMs
Filtering
Computed BOMs
Bill
of Materials View
Displaying
computed BOMs in the Bill of Materials view
BOMs
for as-built versions of assemblies