At my company we're modeling certain pieces of equipment as parts (.sldprt) and others as assemblies (.sldasm). Anyone know of a way Solidworks will recognize the assemblies as parts (just for BOM purposes)? We have to use "Parts only" for BOM's, so unfortunately a piece of equipment modeled as an assembly will produce multiple lines in a BOM. But we want every piece of equipment to be one line on the BOM. Of course equipment modeled as a part file (.sldprt) don't have this problem. My only solution is to "convert" assemblies to parts, so every piece of equipment is a part file (one line in the BOM).
Thanks.
Just set all component to exclude from BOM except one and fill the required information in that.
Or you can add a dummy component with the required properties and set all other to exclude from BOM