Creating a Bom that displays Dimensions Automatically

Discussion created by Jon Califf on Jul 23, 2008
Latest reply on Jun 10, 2009 by John Lhuillier

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Hi all,

Im very new to Solidworks, but basically i work for a Cabinet Company and we are considering switching to Solidworks.

My question is this,

I would like to be able to create a BOM that automatically pulls dimensions from a Assembly. Our drawings are always completely custom and can sometimes be quite large, so manually linking each dimension for every part is somewhat out of the question. I need a Width Length and Material Thickness for each part in the assembly. Ive Browsed this forum and i am not sure that solidworks can do what i want in this area automatically.

any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated

thanks

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Wayne Tiffany Jul 23, 2008 8:09 PM
It sounds like you are wanting 3 properties in the part file that can be shown on the BOM - one each for Length, Width, Thickness.

WT
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- Sven-Erik Nilsson @ Wayne Tiffany on Jul 24, 2008 5:01 AM
  As Wayne sais you need to name the 3 dimensions in each part to Length, Width and Thickness.
  Then you can combine those in the part properties, so they all will be shown in one cell in the BOM.
  See the attached files.
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  - umberto barone @ Sven-Erik Nilsson on Jun 10, 2009 1:03 PM
    
    Sven-Erik Nilsson wrote:
    
    As Wayne sais you need to name the 3 dimensions in each part to Length, Width and Thickness.
    
    Then you can combine those in the part properties, so they all will be shown in one cell in the BOM.
    
    See the attached files.
    
    hi,
    this way doesnt work if one of the "dimension" is an equation;
    
    in my case, one of the dimension is the lenght of a circumference.
    any suggestion to solve the matter?
    thank you
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John Lhuillier Jun 10, 2009 7:02 PM
What we have done is create 2 sketches that go at the end of the tree. These sketches have driven dimensions that form the L X W X H for our BOM. We then edit the sketches and add relations to the outer edges of the model. These are then included in a custom property for size in the for the part which in turn gets a column in our BOM for size. If the model changes, the sketch updates which updates the BOM sizes as well.
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