Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
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Hi guys,
I was wondering if there any way to automatically "cross reference" the sheet location for the detailed views of a particalur part or sub-assembly into the BOM line for that part/sub-assembly? The reason I want to do this is to provide a means of finding the appropiate sub-assembly/part drawings from looking at the BOM of the main assembly. I'm pretty sure anybody who has worked on projects with a large volume of indiviual sheets must have come across this problem before.
Manually entering the relevant drawing number location for each part/assembly in the BOM is insanely time consuming. Also when a sheet is moved or drawing number is changed everything has to be re-checked and adjusted. There must be an easier way I say!
Thus I was wondering if anybody had any brilliant solutions to this problem. Whether it be 3rd party software, functionality within Solidworks or a system where you can do away with drawing numbers altogether!.
Cheers
Dufus
I was wondering if there any way to automatically "cross reference" the sheet location for the detailed views of a particalur part or sub-assembly into the BOM line for that part/sub-assembly? The reason I want to do this is to provide a means of finding the appropiate sub-assembly/part drawings from looking at the BOM of the main assembly. I'm pretty sure anybody who has worked on projects with a large volume of indiviual sheets must have come across this problem before.
Manually entering the relevant drawing number location for each part/assembly in the BOM is insanely time consuming. Also when a sheet is moved or drawing number is changed everything has to be re-checked and adjusted. There must be an easier way I say!
Thus I was wondering if anybody had any brilliant solutions to this problem. Whether it be 3rd party software, functionality within Solidworks or a system where you can do away with drawing numbers altogether!.
Cheers
Dufus






RE: Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
If you really have your heart set on putting all the assembly/subassembly/part drawings in one slddrw (for which you will take a performance hit, by the way), and have the BOM reference the drawing's sheet numbers, you will have to write a macro in VBA.
RE: Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
RE: Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
RE: Automatically referencing drawing locations in the BOM
That's not a problem, you're the one who has to live the "insanely time consuming" method.
Well you asked ... and the one-number method is the next best thing.