I have attached the drawing file and components. All the components show up in the BOM, but not the top level assembly. I must be doing something wrong.
Here is the "description" property I gave for the assembly:
Here is the "description" I typed in under the RMB configuration, property menu:
Not sure what property it is looking for in the BOM either.
I can understand looking at it that way, but our normal practice has been to create a line in the bom with the assembly being a component, then all the parts under it as sub parts or assemblies. If the whole thing needs replaced someday, then it would be ordered under that number. If the sub parts (east support, west columns, hopper, north support beam, conveyor and hopper support beam, hopper adjustment rail, & west support) need replaced someday, then they would be ordered separately.
Also, this is going to be part of a multi-sheet drawing. On another sheet, I would also call out this assembly.
Mattew, i am in the same Boat, we have to show a Line for the ASSY.
unfortunately SW has not easy way that i am aware of.
On my Template, I included a Table with Properties linked. copy/paste in to BOM
This would be great if it could be saved with the BOM Table, but it can't.
if anyone has found an easier way, please let me know.
PS: your Assembly is a good Candidate for Weldment.
Thank you, I may have to do something similar. This will be a weldment, but I needed to show the assembly stages of the weldment, so I decided to create configurations and assemble it that way. We have so many things that are created as an assembly, then welded together later. Then, down the road, something is welded to one of those pieces. Trying to determine which assembly it is part of is a pain.. and I really don't know the best way to do it.
Create a new Assembly, with your top level Assembly as its only component. Insert a BOM from this Assembly. That should allow you to set up the BOM the way you want.
I would have thought it would have worked Glenn, but it doesn't.... at least with the "parts only" option selected.
However, it does work when I do the indented option...there are just many rows to hide. I think this might be the answer, I just don't know if hiding rows is a good practice (mainly because I haven't done it enough).
We do something similar, create BOM and lock item numbers, then insert row at top and type what you want, we label it A1 for item number.
That's' why I changed my BOM header - and then I use the Show Top Level only....
You could just detach the BOM from its anchor and move it down a bit. Then put a note above the BOM for the top level info. The note could be linked to the assembly properties.
Your drawing is the top level, why would it show in the BOM?