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Renaming Virtual Parts in an Assembly

Question asked by Mukesh Prasad on May 18, 2012
Latest reply on May 18, 2012 by Glenn Schroeder

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I have an assembly that has a bunch of virtual parts that I need to show up in the BOM in the Drawing. Currently the displayed name of these components has its assembly part number as part of the name in the Feature Manager tree. I've renamed the components but the owning assembly number is still displayed. How can I get rid of the owning assembly number and still keep the part virtual?

EDIT: I updated the Property for item 1 to show P/N as N/A (since there is no P/N, and add the desctiption of the part under Name under the Custom Properties tab of the part. This updated my BOM as I wanted and I did not had to manually update the BOM Template in the drawing. In the attached drawing, Item 1 is Virtual and the Pem Standoffs are external part.

John Burrill May 18, 2012 11:01 AM

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Mukesh, you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM of a virtual part, the same way you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM with a regular part.

Open the virtual part in it's own window, goto the configuration manager tab, right-click on the configuration used in the BOM and change the settings as shown below:

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Deepak Gupta May 18, 2012 9:38 AM

You can rename virtual components but the name always includes the parent assembly's name. The only option might to make them external.

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Scott McFadden May 18, 2012 9:40 AM

Mukesh,

I haven't worked much with virtual parts, but if you have custom properties identified in your BOM's

can't you assign custom property values to the virtual parts?

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Glenn Schroeder May 18, 2012 10:11 AM

Double-click on the part name on your BOM and type in the new name. That won't change the name of the virtual part in the assembly but it will change the name used for the BOM.

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John Burrill May 18, 2012 11:01 AM

Mukesh, you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM of a virtual part, the same way you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM with a regular part.

Open the virtual part in it's own window, goto the configuration manager tab, right-click on the configuration used in the BOM and change the settings as shown below:

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Mukesh Prasad @ John Burrill on May 18, 2012 11:03 AM

John,

That what I did. See my attachment on the first post.

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Glenn Schroeder @ Mukesh Prasad on May 18, 2012 11:12 AM

Mukesh,

I'm glad you got it to work. I wanted to let you know that the method I described above does the same thing John described. If you use my method, and then go to the configuration properties it will show the name you entered as the User Specified Name. Sometimes it's easier to do it directly in the BOM instead of opening the part.

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Deepak Gupta May 18, 2012 9:38 AM
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You can rename virtual components but the name always includes the parent assembly's name. The only option might to make them external.
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Scott McFadden May 18, 2012 9:40 AM
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Mukesh,
I haven't worked much with virtual parts, but if you have custom properties identified in your BOM's
can't you assign custom property values to the virtual parts?
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Glenn Schroeder May 18, 2012 10:11 AM
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Double-click on the part name on your BOM and type in the new name. That won't change the name of the virtual part in the assembly but it will change the name used for the BOM.
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John Burrill May 18, 2012 11:01 AM
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Mukesh, you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM of a virtual part, the same way you can change the part number that shows up in the BOM with a regular part.
Open the virtual part in it's own window, goto the configuration manager tab, right-click on the configuration used in the BOM and change the settings as shown below:
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- Mukesh Prasad @ John Burrill on May 18, 2012 11:03 AM
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  John,
  That what I did. See my attachment on the first post.
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  - Glenn Schroeder @ Mukesh Prasad on May 18, 2012 11:12 AM
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    Mukesh,
    
    I'm glad you got it to work. I wanted to let you know that the method I described above does the same thing John described. If you use my method, and then go to the configuration properties it will show the name you entered as the User Specified Name. Sometimes it's easier to do it directly in the BOM instead of opening the part.
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