We're in the process of moving form AutoCad to SolidWorks,
and I'm having an issue trying to match the way we do BOMs in
AutoCad. The problems is that we combine the Cut-List and the BOM
as one table, I've tried the Dissolve Weldment Option, but there
seems to be a bug with it, the LENGTH and QTY. columns don't do
what they're supposed to. Any alternatives to achieve this?
My workaround was to break the drawing into an assembly view with the weldment listed as a separate part - and then a separate weldment drawing with a weldment cut list.
If you must have them in one table, you can manually type the cut list into your BOM, but this is very time consuming and error prone.
They may have resolved this with SP 4.0 but I have not downloaded the E.V. yet.