6 Replies Latest reply on Oct 22, 2009 12:59 PM by 1-6TXHTM

Custom Properties and configurations feeding a stock list.

1-511CER Oct 22, 2009 10:57 AM

I'm not sure I understand what SW is doing in 2009 with custom properties. I know that configuration specific properties over ride the custom tab. The problem I'm having is that in an assy I have another assy inserted twice that has four configurations. Currently two (1 & 2) are shown on the drawing. The balloon is pointing to config 1 while the stock list is pulling data from config 3.What drives which custom properties are used for a stock list?

Re: Custom Properties and configurations feeding a stock list.

1-6TXHTM Oct 22, 2009 11:42 AM (in response to 1-511CER)

If you click on your BOM you can check what configuration it is linked to.
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  1-511CER Oct 22, 2009 11:59 AM (in response to 1-6TXHTM)
  
  If I right click I'm not seeing a configuration on the assembly name only the assembly name itself. If I change one of the columns to config name / configuration name etc I'm not getting the correct names. With that aside if only configuratiuons 1 and 2 are on the drawing why does it pick 3?
  
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    1-6TXHTM Oct 22, 2009 12:14 PM (in response to 1-511CER)
    
    I am not understanding exaclty what you are RMB on. When I select the BOM and then go to the properties I see the tree on the left side. This has a number of headings in it and one of them it Configurations. You should be able to select the one(s) that you want on the drawing.
    
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      1-511CER Oct 22, 2009 12:47 PM (in response to 1-6TXHTM)
      
      Let me take a stab at answering my own question. If you insert a part into any assembly and the part has multiple configurations. Then lets add that you insert the same said part 5 times using 5 different configurations. In the assembly lets say you have one configuration for the stock list to build from. In the stock list the data for the part will be pulled from any one of the five configurations. If this is the case you must fill out all 5 configurations with the same key parts of information.
      
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        1-6TXHTM Oct 22, 2009 12:59 PM (in response to 1-511CER)
        
        Sorry I was not understanding your question, it makes sense now. You have inserted an assembly into another assembly and the BOM is pulling the information for that sub assembly from a configuration that is not in the drawing, correct?
        
        Custom properties in the assembly do work as you suggested. Configuration specific props override custom props for that configuration. If a configuration does not have a specific configuration property then it will use the custom properties. So you are correct that you will have to enter that information for each configuration if the information is different. If the information is the same for all configurations then you could enter it once at the custom properties tab and leave it blank at the configuration specific tab.
        
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        1-511CER Oct 22, 2009 1:06 PM (in response to 1-6TXHTM)
        
        Sorry it took a while but your now your on my page. Yes to your first statement. Now I'm thinking that I need my custom property builder set up with configuration and non configuration specific templates.
        
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