I must have missed it somewhere but how do you keep the BOM Item numbers from re-sequencing when you remove a part or two from an assembly? I have a released drawing with a BOM consisting of 22 parts. I am removing two of the parts and the BOM defaults to 20 item numbers. How do I retain the two missing rows with their item numbers?
I do not fully understand. Are you talking about that? SW's not with me. I did this with Excel. to be able to tell.
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I believe the option circled in red should be used in conjunction with the other option for items that are removed.
Thanks Joel. It was the combining of both areas that was throwing me off.
I haven't personally used this functionality but one of our user group members had an issue a couple years ago. Some of the functionality was extended and/or fixed to behave as expected somewhere around the SW 2016 release I believe. It appears to behave as expected now, whereas in his version at the time (2014 if memory serves me), checking the Keep Missing Item/Row didn't work right and he was forced to insert rows manually.
I have the same question as the original post, but my assembly contains multiple configurations and various combinations of parts suppressed.
When I use the "KEEP MISSING ITEM/ROW" option, all the suppressed parts show up in my BOM. Is there another option to ignore suppressed parts?
I believe the option circled in red should be used in conjunction with the other option for items that are removed.