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BOM Issue

I'm running 2k5 SP0.1

when I insert a SW BOM into a drawing the header of the "quantity" column always reads CONFIGURATION NAME/QTY. where "CONFIGURATION NAME" is the title of the configuration I'm generating the BOM from.... now, this makes the Quantity column about this wide:

|.................................................|

When, if the heading of the column was merely "QTY." it'd be this wide:

|........|

Since all of the contents are usually single digits.... I've tried everything, modifying the title, modifying the column header and every time I change it, it changes back to including the configuration name.....HELP!

George.

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George Maddever
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Delete the period after "QTY". Dug around in SW help files to find this fix when I was setting up templates a couple weeks ago.

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Mr_Randy

Wow.... guess it's a bug eh..... I'll give it a whirl and see if it works... thanks for the tip :)

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George Maddever

Make sure you delete the period after the QTY also or the description will reappear when you do a rebuild. This is fixed in SP5 in SW2004 with a check box in the Document Options under Tables. Are you running 2004 or 2005? If you are on 2005 I hope they add this to their next SP in 2005.

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SWuser

I am running 2005 and I hope they fix this as well... I wish there was an option in the dialog box/feature tree when you first insert the BOM so that you can have it so that it is selectable whether it attaches the config name to the BOM QTY column... really this is only necessary if you're inserting QTY columns for more than one config... they COULD make it smart so that if you were only using one config it didn't display it but that would be far, far too easy. The thing is, you send your drawings to manufacturers and usually they don't have a clue what's going on with your model and so configuration names just confuse them.... to me it really is a pretty redundant feature.

George.

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George Maddever

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