BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
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I design custom airplane seats using Inventor 2012. I usually create my bill of materials in Excel and then paste into an inventor .idw because i can adjust the table easily that way, but it is a lot of extra work that I dont exactly have time for. I am familiar with generating custom tables for materials, volumes, percentages, etc. But what I want to know is this:
My (1) seat assembly is comprised of 6 sub-assemblies(at a minimum)= bottom cushion, back, 2 arms, headrest and a legrest; and sometimes the seat frame.
When I select the whole seat assembly in the drawing to generate a parts table, I get 6 empty fields next to the 6 assembly icons.
So, here's the questions i'm trying to ask: Is it possible to generate one master bill of materials for the 1 seat assembly that is comprised of (x) amount of sub-assemblies?
My (1) seat assembly is comprised of 6 sub-assemblies(at a minimum)= bottom cushion, back, 2 arms, headrest and a legrest; and sometimes the seat frame.
When I select the whole seat assembly in the drawing to generate a parts table, I get 6 empty fields next to the 6 assembly icons.
So, here's the questions i'm trying to ask: Is it possible to generate one master bill of materials for the 1 seat assembly that is comprised of (x) amount of sub-assemblies?





RE: BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
1. You can choose to make the Subassembly Phantom which will promote the sub component up in the tree one level
2. You can go to your BOM Editor and choose the View Properties button. This gets a little lengthy so look at a video and blog post I have here... http://blogs.rand.com/manufacturing/2010/06/invent...
RE: BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
RE: BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
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RE: BILL OF MATERIALS QUESTION- for assemblies w/ sub-assemblies
http://forums.autodesk.com/
To your other question, this comes in how you originally setup your design. You could use the iAssemblies functionality to create a Master Table BOM of your components. Otherwise the G.A.P. is to create separate drawing packages for each variation.