Bill of Materials Wont Rebuild
Bill of Materials Wont Rebuild
(OP)
using 2005 SP4
I have an assembly, that has 80 items. It's a mix of sub assy's and parts. I have it set up so I can use the parts only bom list. Some of the sub assy's are "real" sub assy's and have the box selected that says "don't show child componets when used as sub assembly".
When I made the bom I overlooked one of these had not been turned on. So I turned it on, but I can't get the model to reflect the changes on the dwg. They are still listed as individual parts. The bom will not rebuild.
(note: this is an ongoing issue that i have with sw. I can never seem to get the bom to behave w/o jumping though massive hoops... and have searched the site to no avail... plus my VAR is useless. They always tell me to just delete and re insert the bom, but I have just spend the last 2 hours customizing it, and REFUSE!)
Any help will be appriciated.!
I have an assembly, that has 80 items. It's a mix of sub assy's and parts. I have it set up so I can use the parts only bom list. Some of the sub assy's are "real" sub assy's and have the box selected that says "don't show child componets when used as sub assembly".
When I made the bom I overlooked one of these had not been turned on. So I turned it on, but I can't get the model to reflect the changes on the dwg. They are still listed as individual parts. The bom will not rebuild.
(note: this is an ongoing issue that i have with sw. I can never seem to get the bom to behave w/o jumping though massive hoops... and have searched the site to no avail... plus my VAR is useless. They always tell me to just delete and re insert the bom, but I have just spend the last 2 hours customizing it, and REFUSE!)
Any help will be appriciated.!
Wes C.






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Well I don't know what I did. But I highlighted the BOM symbol in the tree, and hit the rebuild button. After the 17 time I didn this, the BOM finally rebuilt itself....
huray... I just wish I knew what happened.
Wes C.
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A full resolve might be needed before all changes will show up in your BOM. on another note, if rebuild doensn't work, ctrl-q(reload) is a step more powerfull.
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
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Anyone else have trouble getting bom's to rebuild after making model changes?
Wes C.
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Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
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Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?
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There is nothing unusual in in.
5 Colums
1. Qty / Assy
2. Part No.
3. Desc.
4. MFR/Material (which is unlinked)
5. Find No.
Wes C.
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Wes C.
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Good luck!
Regg
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Wes C.
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Why don't you use the Custom or Configuration Specific part properties to populate the BOMs?
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
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Regards,
Regg
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Using "custom properties" is similar to the way we handle our CATIA models, but havn't set it up yet for SWx.
I'll give it a shot.
Wes C.
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IF you have saved it as a template, that's why it is suggested that you delete it and re-add it. The only problem has been that sometimes the BOM doesn't update (when no manual changes are made) and the only workaround at this time is to to delete it. That doesn't make your VAR useless, he is just telling you the proper workaround. Because you don't like, doesn't mean they are wrong... They are helping you out by telling the proper procedure.
It may not work right, but that what happens when there is a bug. That's why you must save your BOM template off and when you re-add it, it will have the updated Column information.
However if you double clicked a cell your BOM has lost it's associativety. - You even get a message telling you this when you double click the cell. If you read the message it will tell you what is going to happen from this point foward.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Yes the template is saved off.
The only information that "changes" in the BOM is, on some rows, a "blank" cell, gets one line of information added. I know that I should do this through custom properties, but havn't set it up to do so yet.
Secondly, I am more conserned at this point about moving rows around, because technically, at this point, I have not added anything to the BOM, but I have re-orderd it (to the advice of my VAR).
I would like to know why, however it randomly chose to update after "rebuilding" the BOM a dozen times, in a row.
Wes C.
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There are no engineers in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent engineer would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
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Wes- check out the automatic BOM updatec heckbox in your Tool/Options/ Document Properties.
If Manual entry is prohibited , how do you address the fastner issue?
I have my entire BOM linked to the Custom Properties of the model. But I don't like putting all my fasteners in my model.I symbolically put 1 unique fastener so that is shows up in my BOM and manually edit the quantity.
So is there workaround to this issue.Thanks in advance.
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Wes C.
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There are no engineers in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent engineer would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
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It would need to count holes on too many levels.. and actually, I don't use hole on assembly level.
ex- drill an extrusion, and where it would match drill on a panel to put an insert in, I'd just drop the insert, and in the dwg it would say.. "Match to", or "Locate from".
It workes a little faster for MY aplication... At least in the model creation area (again, this is a recomendation of my VAR).
Wes C.
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There are no engineers in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent engineer would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.