Doubling Qty in the BOM for an assembly

Discussion created by Francis Sison on Apr 2, 2008
Latest reply on May 10, 2011 by james demarco

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What is the easiest way to double the qty in a BOM without adding the components in the model itself?

In my drawing I only want to detail a RH weldment and place a note indicating "LH Weldment is mirror copy of RH weldment". But I want the BOM to reflect the quantities needed to build both a RH and a LH weldment.

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Anna Wood Apr 2, 2008 3:49 PM
Edit the qty column in the BOM. I am pretty sure you can over ride the qty with an edit.

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- Kirk Jess @ Anna Wood on Apr 2, 2008 4:00 PM
  Here's little change I use for As Required Parts:
  Under Properties of the part file:
  the tab Custom; add the follwing two lines
  Property Name--Type--Value
  Bulk------------Y or N---Yes
  Bulk_qty-------Text-----AR
  
  Then in your BOM add Columns Bulk_Qty & Sys_Qty
  
  When you create the BOM just Hide those two columns. This will populate the BOM correctly. Just change your Bulk_qty from AR to 2.
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  - Taylor Mason @ Kirk Jess on Apr 21, 2008 6:47 PM
    Have you ever tried to accomplish this with the weldment cut list?? I have had no luck getting Bulk Quanities
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  - Eddie Cyganik @ Kirk Jess on Apr 22, 2008 5:01 PM
    
    A word of caution concerning the use of Bulk & Bulk_Qty:
    
    This method does not work for Tabulated Assemblies.
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Kelvin Lamport Apr 22, 2008 5:30 PM
Create a new column.
Place an Equation in the column (QTY x 2).
Hide the QTY column.
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David Mandl May 5, 2011 12:32 PM
Easy solution that doesn't involve overwriting anything:
1. Go to the custom properties screen.
2. Create a property, call it QtyFactor, or whatever name you like.
3. For the value of that property, put in 2. Or whatever value you want to multiply your quantities by.
4. Select the "BOM Quantity" drop-down box, select QtyFactor.
5. Now, all of your BOM tables will have an adjusted value in the Qty column. No need to add new columns to your tables, no need to manually override anything.
Badda-bing badda-boom, you're done.

See also: This thread.
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- james demarco @ David Mandl on May 10, 2011 10:22 AM
  I really like the custom properties idea - but my question is wouldn't I have to do this to each component in the assembly?
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  - David Mandl @ james demarco on May 10, 2011 10:38 AM
    For every part that you wanted to adjust the quantities of in the BOM, yes.
    
    The other downside is that, since you are associating this adjusted quantity at the part level, you will have an adjusted quantity every single time this part shows up in an assembly BOM. (Granted: if you want to avoid that, you're pretty much stuck with manually changing fields in the BOM anyway)
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