Exclude from BOM
Exclude from BOM
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Hey All,
Has anybody using SW2005 gotten the "Exclude from BOM" to work. We have tried it on a couple different workstations to no avail. We are using an excel BOM and we are on SP 4.0.
I searched and found thread559-102859 which refers to SW 2004 and is no help in finding a solution. We need to be able to exclude certain instances of hardware from our BOM for certain sales options and have the BOM reflect the changes correctly, as of now you check the box for "Exclude from BOM" and rebuild the drawing and no change has taken affect on the BOM.
Has anybody using SW2005 gotten the "Exclude from BOM" to work. We have tried it on a couple different workstations to no avail. We are using an excel BOM and we are on SP 4.0.
I searched and found thread559-102859 which refers to SW 2004 and is no help in finding a solution. We need to be able to exclude certain instances of hardware from our BOM for certain sales options and have the BOM reflect the changes correctly, as of now you check the box for "Exclude from BOM" and rebuild the drawing and no change has taken affect on the BOM.
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RE: Exclude from BOM
Hope this helps.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Exclude from BOM
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
RE: Exclude from BOM
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Exclude from BOM
The Exclude from BOM only works with the SW BOM, not the Excel BOM. The only way I know to exclude items from the Excel BOM is to suppress the items you don't want.
mncad
RE: Exclude from BOM
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Exclude from BOM
We are using a configuration already. We have our main assy with a sales option in a configuration. Our main assy already has it BOM and is correct, the main assy also needs to be shown in the options config to show mounting and orientation of components and hardware. Since the main assy is accounted for in its own BOM we need to exclude it from the sales option configuration BOM but keep it visible.
Hopefully this makes sense.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
RE: Exclude from BOM
When you create a new BOM you can also go to Contents tab and uncheck the hidden lines before clicking OK to generate the BOM.
Hope this helps,
Andrew