Anyone putting a hardware schedule on drawings? How do you do it?
With Inventor you can save a filtered bom template so it's easy to put an associative hardware schedule on a drawing. I don't see any way to do this in SolidWorks - I can hide rows but that's an accident waiting to happen.
I put all the hardware at the bottom of the feature tree (in a folder named 'Hardware') and then tell the BOM to 'Follow Assembly Order'.
Is there a way to choose if a part is displayed in the BOM based on a custom property?
All I've got is a variant on Jim Sculley's method. Add a new config and exclude everything else from BOM, in that config. Add a view off to the side of the sheet of that config and add a new BOM linked to that view for the HW schedule...Sounds like a hack, right?..Well, that's what I've done in the past.
Anybody got a robust solution?
Matt Peneguy wrote:
Is there a way to choose if a part is displayed in the BOM based on a custom property?
All I've got is a variant on Jim Sculley's method. Add a new config and exclude everything else from BOM, in that config. Add a view off to the side of the sheet of that config and add a new BOM linked to that view for the HW schedule...Sounds like a hack, right?..Well, that's what I've done in the past.
Anybody got a robust solution?
You can sort your parts by custom property using Assembly Visualization and then export that list to an Excel document. However, that is not the same thing as putting it on a drawing.
Oh, yeah I forgot about that. That is a handy way of handling and exporting data from SWX. I was working with one of our structural guys because he had come up with a different bridge weight than I did. I was able to export the list of structural members and their weights for him to compare.
Thanks guys, it looks like accident waiting to happen wins. A configuration with a bunch of sub-assemblies would be even harder to maintain.
I use Hide Selected all the time and there's no accident about it, that I'm aware of. One way you could do it is add another configuration and suppress everything except the Hardware and then in the drawing you can call for that configuration and all your hardware will be listed.