BOM question

Mar 20, 2005 7 Replies

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jk 21 years ago

I always put my Bill of Materials on one end of my mold drawings. I have been working on a monster mold for a couple of months. Monday I'll be finally wrapping it up and one of the last things I'll be doing is inserting an Excel-based BOM. I just realized today as I was putting in o-rings and bolting everything together that there is no way in hell that it is going to fit on an e-size drawing. Definitely won't fit vertically-probably not even hoizontally. Is there a way to break it so that I can get it on a sheet?

If not, I suppose the alternative would be to insert the thing so that I can balloon the beast. Then save it out as an excel file, hide the BOM and print out the excel file.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

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John Eric Voltin 21 years ago

There is a way to break a BOM into multiple columns, but I haven't needed to do so in several years. I'm confidant that I was working with Excel based BOMs at the time. I have already checked the SolidWorks help looking for reminders/clues, but I found nothing. If a get a chance later today, I will do some experimenting and post my results.

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Jo 21 years ago

Are you able to use the SW BOM. It does allow you to split it either horizontal or verticle.

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jk 21 years ago

Thanks for the replies. I also looked in the help before posting the first time and didn't see anything. I hadn't thought about using the `new' BOM. Never got around to checking it out because the other way was working for me. I suppose I can look into that.

Thanks again.

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Dale Dunn 21 years ago

On the Excel-based BOM, right-click and go to the properties. On the control tab you have options for splitting the table.

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jk 21 years ago

That was it-piece of cake. Never even saw it there before. Thanks, Dale.

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Sean-Michael Adams 21 years ago

Hi JK-

Recently I also found that the "new" BOM can be split and that the split segments can be cut-copied to a completely new sheet. The tabular-BOM can traverse sheets if needed.

Now if they could only optimize the space usage . . .

Later,

SMA

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jk 21 years ago

Thanks for the info. I thought I was going to need to do just that, but made it all onto one sheet with 2 splits (3 columns). What a beast....

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