Generating a Bill of Material

You can insert a bill of material anywhere in the active sheet or layout. If there is more than one view of different products in the same sheet or layout, you need to specify the product on which the bill of material is to be computed. You can do so, either by selecting a generative view representing the product or by a direct selection in the 3D window. You can also insert several bill of materials in the same sheet or layout.

A bill of material describes a product in terms of its assemblies, sub-assemblies and/or basic parts. It consists of an itemized list of parts of a structure shown on a drawing or a layout in the shape of a table. There are different types of bills of materials dependent upon the discipline that generates them and the purpose for which they are intended. You can customize the bill of material by selecting the type of bill of material, style of bill of material, properties of bill of material and so on.

Before you begin: Open a drawing or a layout representation and an assembly product.
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Modifying a Bill of Material

  1. Click Bill of Material in the Annotations toolbar (Table and Balloon sub-toolbar).

    The Bill of Material Creation dialog box appears.

  2. In the Style list, select the bill of material style of your choice.

  3. Optional: Select the Invert check box, if you want the table headers at the bottom and the item numbers from bottom to top.

  4. Click OK.

  5. Optional: Select a product or a view on which the bill of material is to be computed.

    Note: If a drawing or a layout representation contains two generative views of two different products, then you need to select the particular product or the view.

  6. Click in the sheet at the location where you want the bill of material to be positioned.

    The bill of material is placed at the selected location with the selected style. Additionally, the BOM.x node is added to the specification tree, under the Reports node.





    Notes:

    • Weight is not a default property. However, the administrator can add it in the bill of material style definitions or you can add it after creation of a bill of material in the Reported Properties tab, available by right-clicking the bill of material and selecting Properties.
    • The bill of material links are displayed in the Edit Links & Relations dialog box along with the other links of the drawing.