BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
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See attached. This is a new one on me! I was going through doing some final checks and spotted it. I thought I'd somehow broken the link in the box, but it's still blue (as opposed to an orangey colour when you manually enter a value).
BOM's have normally been the least of my worries so I don't actually know where to start on this!
BOM's have normally been the least of my worries so I don't actually know where to start on this!






RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
- Forced re-draw (ctrl-Q)?
- Have you tried re-entering the BOM?
- I manually re-entered a BOM number once and instead of turning an orangey color - it remained blue with the correct value.
RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
This sort of stuff does tick me off. Can we just have a more stable SW in the next release, please?
I tried a ctrl+Q, but I will give it another go. I'll do a restart too... that seems to cure far more than it ever should haha!
As for re-entering the BOM, do you mean delete it and create a new one? I could do, but I'm holding out for another solution, because I re-order BOM's for this client (fabricated parts first, numerically, followed by bought in parts) so it'd just be another job to re-do.
RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 4.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580
RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
I digress...
RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
RE: BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!
To further assist, you can sort by 3 different columns, swapping ascending and descending orders. I've never used the "Group Items" - just never seen it there. Might have to now! I leave the last box unchecked "Do not change item #'s.
Since I have to adapt to standards for various companies, I like to stick a large note above my title block reminding me how I sorted the BOM. This note does not print, does not save out to PDF, but does save out on DWG's :(
Typically, I sort by vendor, then by sheet #, then by description. This keeps all of my hardware grouped by type.
This takes about 10 seconds max. Been doing it this way since 2007. Give it a try.