I am making a set of fab drawings for an assembly for quotation. For simplicity sake I put multiple parts on one drawing, to reduce the number of pages, but I need a bom for the individual parts. Is there a way to make one bom from multiple separate parts?
Is there another way to do that. That's going to be a lot of work
There's not any other way that I know of, and it doesn't seem like that much work to me. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Make a view of your assy on the first sheet, make the BOM from that.
Create sheets 2 thru ? with the individual parts on them.
Glenn,
I haven't tried it so I don't know, but would deleting the assm view cause issues for the BOM? I usually just hide the view or move it off the screen so it can be found.
Otherwise, he could make a general table and enter all the information with linked cells. Of course if creating a mock assembly is a lot of work this would definitely be a killer.
I would also do like Glenn Schroeder mentioned, number one the bom is parametric and not some cobbled together, pasted from another page kind of document, that looses all references/connections etc.....
It is very simple to open a new assembly and open file explorer, highlighting the parts you want to drop in with a drag and drop, like Glenn said no need to mate any parts, they'd be one one glob. Then you save that assembly - just a generic file name and insert that into the drawing, but you need to drag the view off the paper area, it can be off on the side and remain there. I actually do that with some detail views etc....
John,
Fully agree. Just throwing out options, even if they create far more work.
Jim Steinmeyer wrote:
Glenn,
I haven't tried it so I don't know, but would deleting the assm view cause issues for the BOM? I usually just hide the view or move it off the screen so it can be found.
Although you of course need a drawing view of an Assembly to insert a BOM, after insertion the BOM is linked to the Assembly, not the drawing view, so you can delete the drawing view without problems (and I have done so).
If you could use the components filenames:
File-> Find References-> Copy List
Then paste in Excel, edit as needed and paste the resulting table in your drawing.
Is there a way to make one bom from multiple separate parts?
Does it really need to be one combined BOM?
You could just individually select each view and then insert it's BOM.
You do know that putting multiple parts in one drawing "for simplicity" makes a lot of things a lot harder, right? This BOM is one thing, but it will also look like parts have no drawing because there's no drawing file with the same name.
I read that it's only for a quotation, so if you only use it once it might turn out ok. But oftentimes those quick and dirty models get reused for the actual project and then you'll be in trouble.
Some of us have created many drawings without the drawing file and model file names matching. In fact, I don't think mine ever have.
I assumed most of you worked like me, I understand once again that's a faulty assumption SolidWorks also assumes the drawing to be of the same name. Is it easier to have non-matching file names when using PDM systems? I've worked with a few, but never worked at a company that created different file names for drawings.
Peter Brinkhuis wrote:
Is it easier to have non-matching file names when using PDM systems?
I don't know. I've never used PDM. All my files are in Windows Explorer.
Create an Assembly and insert one of each Part. Don't bother with mating or fixing them. Insert a drawing view of the Assembly and use it to insert a BOM. Then you can hide or delete the drawing view.