I have a weldment cutlist table in a drawing that is tabulated. The part is configured such that one item's qty is called out in the table under column C. How can I change the qty cell of the weldment cutlist table to just type the letter C? I know I can edit the description and part number columns by double clicking in them and breaking the link, but this doesn't work for the QTY column.
C is not a quantity.
Quantity is managed by the number of instances into an assembly, nothing else, or at least as far as I'm aware.
In the case of a cutlist, which means for a part, you can have either your length displayed as the quantity or the number of instances there is, though I don't remember what you have to do to display one or the other.
What you can do is create a separate column next to the "QTY." column and name it "QTY" ...Now you can use a Custom Property or probably Cut List Property, say "Use BOM QTY". Then in the BOM, you could use an If Then statement to check if the "Use BOM QTY" = NO, if it equals NO, then the equation can evaluate to "-" or "C", or whatever you want.
Here's a shorter version that I checked and should work:
=IF(`BOM Name`="*";"My Text";`QTY.`)
Just replace "BOM Name" with the custom porperty or weldment property, the asterisk with the text you are checking for, "My Text" with what you want to show in the BOM, and leave the "QTY." alone...And make sure you use the backticks and not ', which is an easy mistake to make.
Here's a little more complicated version with a nested IF Then statement (you can only nest 2 deep):
=IF(`BOM Name`="*";`SW-Configuration Name`;IF(`BOM Name`="";`SW-Configuration Name`;`BOM Name`))
I don't know your experience level with this stuff, so, I'll just add how to get to the column equation:
Double click the column header, then choose Equation from the drop down.
I'd suggest using Notepad to edit the equations, they don't give you much space to work.
Thanks Matt. I'm playing around with different options also. Right now I'm hiding a row in the cutlist, just like I've done many times with an assy bom, however, every time I regen the hidden row unhides. This doesn't happen in an assy bom. Do you know what I'm doing wrong here?
I don't know much about cut lists in drawings. I always just use a BOM and have it pull the cut list information in...I'm not even sure cutlists support equations.
I found simplest solution. In the weldment model, select the cutlist item properties that needs the qty variable. In the QUANTITY Property Name uncheck the linked box. Now the Value / Text Expression can be edited.
This edited value will now show in the weldment cutlist table in the drawing.
Nice! I didn't know that was an option.
Mark your post as the correct answer, so anyone seeing this thread sees it first (not that this is a very long thread, but it's still good practice).
That's odd, I work with cut lists all the time and haven't had this problem occur. Have you tried saving the desired result as a template to see if they get brought back?
P.S. in the ''desired result'', you could perhaps suppress them instead of hiding them, since it will become a ''template'' for specific lists.
I found simplest solution. In the weldment model, select the cutlist item properties that needs the qty variable. In the QUANTITY Property Name uncheck the linked box. Now the Value / Text Expression can be edited.
This edited value will now show in the weldment cutlist table in the drawing.