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SE v18 Draft BOM

SE v18 Draft BOM

SE v18 Draft BOM

(OP)
Does anyone know of a way to bring in a number of lines of BOM that I can then edit. I will be putting the ballons on separetly.

RE: SE v18 Draft BOM

jlbmech,
I think you will have to use a spreadsheet for this, as the  automatic BOM is not editable (at least up to V15).
No doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Go to Insert > Object and select Excel Spreadsheet with the Create New option.
This will embed a spreadsheet into your drawing that you can edit as required.
One tip here  - in earlier versions of SE it was very difficult to increase the visible row/columns once the sheet had been created and cropped. What I do is put some data in a cell with a row/column position much greater than you will ever use. You will then be able to crop and re-crop if necessary.
eg. if you think your data will only extend to say cell H10 then put a character in cell P20.

I'm on SolidWorks at the moment so I'm not up-to-date with how latest versions of SE work. Apologies if some of my info is no longer valid.
The REALLY good news is I will be back in Solid Edge after next week -- Yipppeeeeeeeee !!!!

bc

RE: SE v18 Draft BOM

Hi,

to have the generated BOM in Excel just do the following
 - select the PartsList
 - RMB --> slect Copy Contents
 - Open a new Excel
 - RMB -- Paste or Ctrl-V
 
 To adust the PartsList in SE
 
 - Select
 - RMB  -> select Properties
   make sure the pull down shows the correct style
   - make any changes to text height/ columns a.s.o
   
 - quit with OK
 
 
 To convert a PartsList to just textboxes
 
 - RMB -- select Convert to Text (can't be undone!)
 
 
 dY

RE: SE v18 Draft BOM

DY,
Spot-on with your info but I assumed jlbmech wanted an excel spreadsheet on the drawing. My method creates the excel file inside the draft file whereas your first option creates a separate excel file - but of course this can then be embedded back into the draft file.
All depends on what the user wants.

bc.

RE: SE v18 Draft BOM

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I will be putting the ballons on separately.
Why do you want to do that?

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