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Question asked by Mike Lydon on Sep 8, 2011
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I have an idea for a custom BOM. I someone knows if this can be done, please let me know, otherwise, chime in if you think this is a good idea.

On occasion, I have a need for a BOM for a couple of individual items on a sheet with some details and parts that are accounted for in BOM's on other drawings. I would like to have a custom BOM that I can specify what custom properties each column represents, and, instead of needing a view to define the BOM, I insert the BOM, and pick the views of parts or sub-assemblies, that I want to populate the BOM. Can this be done currently?

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Mike Lydon

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Scott McFadden Sep 8, 2011 7:30 AM
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Mike,
Sounds like you are talking about a BOM for a part.
There was a thread earlier this week that I will try and find to post here.

If you have one kind of made up that you can post an image of that would be great.
I do think there might be a need for thisand I think there are ways to do this, but
unfortunately at the moment the BOM's are only use on assemblies.
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Aaron Baumgartner Sep 8, 2011 7:30 AM
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Yes this can be done. we have had our this way since 2007. If i remember correctly to create the links you just insert a bom, then rc on the column you want to change and change it to the custom property that you want.

EX for us in our BOM we have a column for the part number. however its not always the file name so this is a custom property that the user inputs.
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- Mike Lydon @ Aaron Baumgartner on Sep 8, 2011 7:47 AM
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  Aaron,
  
  No. To insert a BOM, you need to pick an existing view of an assembly. I want to insert the BOM, THEN pick what parts or sub-assemblies I want included in the BOM. I want the BOM to look at the custom properties of the part/assembly in the chosen view, and populate the BOM appropriately.
  
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  - Aaron Baumgartner @ Mike Lydon on Sep 8, 2011 7:51 AM
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    Now i got ya...
    
    could you pre-determine what parts/assemblies you want to show up and create a configuration for that view. in that config on the properties of the parts/ assy's click do not include in bom.?? You can link a BOM to different configs.
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  - Scott McFadden @ Mike Lydon on Sep 8, 2011 8:12 AM
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    Like a feature scope for BOM's
    Feature scope that gives you the ability to remove components
    from a view. No, MIke this does not exist, yet.
    
    I personally like the BOM the way it currently is from this perspective.
    I am not seeing the benifits of what you are suggesting, but you have the option
    to add it as an enhancement request.
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    - Mike Lydon @ Scott McFadden on Sep 8, 2011 9:36 AM
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      Scott,
      
      I generally like the way it works, also. It's just that, on occasion, I need a BOM with a couple of parts that are not an assembly, in fact may not be part of the same model/assembly.
      
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