Idea!Add ability to promote all configurations at once

Hi Igor,

I know all about language barrier. English is my second language as well.

Reading your post give me the impression that you have rather little experience in using SW as a design tool. An impression as I said.

A natural progression is to learn a skill first then you can start on improving it. A person with experience is more likely to give valuable input then a person without experience. After all you can only teach something that you know how to do yourself.

I see communication as a tool. I use it to exchange with one anther. I use it to achieve a certain outcome. And what you communicate is not what you say but what is received. Just like SW...if I want to draw a circle but what ends up being on screen is rectangle is the same as saying something one way while it is understood as something completely different. I learned if you want someone to understand you, then it is your responsibility to make sure it is received as intended. Not the other way around. Knowledge without the ability to properly communicate is not of much use to anyone else.

Elmar

Just as info, there are a couple of ways to get your BOM to work right.  Sound like you are currently using a "Top level only" BOM and promoting all of the subassemblies that you want all parts to show up in the BOM.

I have always used the opposite approach: Parts Only BOM, and hide child components for any subassembly that I don't want to see components for.  When you hide child components, the subassembly shows up in the BOM instead of the parts.

Here are macro codes if someone want to try. Please backup and use on your own risk.

Option Explicit
Sub main()
    Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
    Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
    Dim vConfNameArr As Variant
    Dim sConfigName As String
    Dim i As Long 

    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc 

    vConfNameArr = swModel.GetConfigurationNames
    For i = 0 To UBound(vConfNameArr)
        sConfigName = vConfNameArr(i)
        swModel.ShowConfiguration2 sConfigName
        swModel.EditConfiguration3 sConfigName, sConfigName, "", "", swConfigurationOptions2_e.swConfigOption_DoDisolveInBOM
    Next i
  End Sub