I'm trying to set up toolbox at our company and have ran into
an obstacle.
We use a custom BOM for all our drawings. Each fastener has is it's own file and our custom BOM pulls a static link from the fastener's custom properties "PartNo" property name we create. (Yes I know this is the worst way to do it) But I came into this storm. I'm just trying to fix this spreading "virus" we have.
My question is how to I set up the toolbox parts to have that PartNo property set to populate our custom BOM correctly? I do know you can set up the user properties to create a new part number every time you add a new part to an assembly? But, is that smart to use in a multi-user environment. Will it use that part again you create the next time you use it? Plus that seems like a lot of work and extra file space we don't need.
We use a custom BOM for all our drawings. Each fastener has is it's own file and our custom BOM pulls a static link from the fastener's custom properties "PartNo" property name we create. (Yes I know this is the worst way to do it) But I came into this storm. I'm just trying to fix this spreading "virus" we have.
My question is how to I set up the toolbox parts to have that PartNo property set to populate our custom BOM correctly? I do know you can set up the user properties to create a new part number every time you add a new part to an assembly? But, is that smart to use in a multi-user environment. Will it use that part again you create the next time you use it? Plus that seems like a lot of work and extra file space we don't need.
I'm a little unclear on how the part number is created. I understand that you put this number in the 'PartNo' Custom Property, but is it manually typed in? It appears that the BOM looks at this 'PartNo'. If this is the case, you could set your 'PartNo' property to reference the 'Description' property. This is done as follows:
$PRP:"Description" (This is the value you would enter in the 'PartNo' property. It basically looks at the 'Description'' property and uses that value.)
Then whenever a user creates a size in Toolbox he would enter the partnumber in the Description. Any time that size is used, it would use the same part and therefore Description. I've included a screenshot of the Toolbox Property Manager on how to add info to the Description in Toolbox.
Maybe this doesn't help at all. I'm slightly unclear what you're trying to do.
Thanks,