how to add item No. in BOM
how to add item No. in BOM
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I generated Numbers in the 3D assy, then ballooned in the 2D drawing. But I can't see an item No. in the BOM. Can someone help me show it?
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how to add item No. in BOM
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RE: how to add item No. in BOM
Another victim of the "pseudo-BOM"
It doesn't work that way, unfortunately...
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RE: how to add item No. in BOM
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
The number shoud show up in the 2D. However it will not assign a number to sub-assys. If anyone knows how to assign a number to a sub please advise.
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
In Assembly Design Workbench, go to ANALYZE + BILL OF MATERIAL to bring up a big panel. In the lower right corner, click on the DEFINE FORMATS box to customize your BOM. (note there are two colums: Displayed and Hidden)
I didn't want two lists, so I hide all the properties on the top portion.
On the bottom portion, put the NUMBER property into the Display column to add the balloon number to the BOM. Use the < and > icons to display/hide whatever properties you want. I used Number, Quantity, Part Number, and Nomencature for mine. You can also use the bottom icon to reorder the properties.
Now you can go back to your drawing and insert a new BOM that you've customized.
I think by using the bottom portion, I was able to include sub-assembly parts in the BOM.
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
i'm in the middle of this hell right now! Good luck.
Wes C.
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
That is pretty much impossible we have the same problem we do not want the parts of a subassembly numbered we want that subassembly as a whole numbered. Stated another way we want the first level children of an assembly numbered and nothing else. In the model we have given up on CATIA's default number altogether and have been using the Instance Description to hold the item number. We have a script that assign the numbers similar to CATIA's numbering plus it allows us to edit them if need be.
Shawn
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
That sounds pretty good, thanks. Does your script run well with multiple instances of the same part? I would like to see the script if I could.
Adam
RE: how to add item No. in BOM
Now there are parts that I left out like we do not always number just one assembly at a time which complicates things enormously. We have what we call part families where different versions of an assembly get numbered according to our own standard (simplified as much as possible like parts get the same number, different parts get numbered incrementally higher across the part family).
The script runs fine with multiple instances because of the dictionary. The only problem is keeping the designers out of the instance description so they don't change the text. Another problem I ran into was deactivated parts hidden parts and reference parts which all also had to be programmed around.
Good Luck
Shawn