Sub Assembly Display In BOMs

Well you could show assemblies with indented parts. Then turn off all the parts you don't want and renumber the list. Lotsa fun that.

This is kind of a major oversight. In exploded views you can specify subs as a unit or as parts. Not in a BOM. Who would have thought?

Or you could get a PDM system that supports this.

TOP

Actually there is a fudge workaround. You have to do this without saving the top level assembly.

Dissolve the assembly that you want the parts list for then make the BOM in the drawing. Don't save the assembly though.

TOP

I think you may be able to achieve what you want, but it may depend on how you wish to use sub-assemblies in other top level assemblies.

Use the "parts only" option - this is somewhat mis-named, as it can also show sub-assemblies as well as listing all parts across all levels.

If you have some sub-assemblies which you wish to only appear as single-line items in the BOM, then you need to open up each such sub-assembly and edit the config properties and select "do not show child components when used as a sub-assembly".

The "parts only" option will now just show these as single-line items. All other sub-assemblies will be expanded out to show their contents, but NOT the actual sub-assembly name. This is the method to use if you need to arrange your large assemblies into a series of "dummy" sub-assemblies to simplify the assembly structure and solving of mates i.e. you don't want the dummy sub-assys to appear in the BOM, just their contents.

John H

TOP & John H,

Thanks very much. New there wasnt an 'easy and logical' method! Just had to check though just in case :)

John H, I did notice that option you speak of and it sounds like the least evil of all the work- arounds. Semi official way actually so thats not *too* bad. Still fairly unoptimal but i'll try it in a few test files first as it sound slike it works back-to-front to get what i want done but can be done if i do it opposite to how i want. lol (if that makes sense).

Anywyas Cheers for confirming. work-arounds only. SW Corp add this one to the list along side "override qty in BOM with this qty" enhancement. :P

-HoffY

What I find lacking in SWX (compared with say I-DEAS) is that you have to specofy it at the sub-assembly level how you want it to appear in a BOM at a higher level !! Seeing as a sub-assy might be used in more than one top level assy, this is not good.

It's fair enough that you might want to specify the default behaviour for how a sub-assy config appears in top level assy, but you should be able to over-ride this.

In I-DEAS you could pick any item at any level of the BOM and exclude it. Also, you could select a sub-assy (e.g. a dummy "container" assy) and say "parts only", so that the name of the dummy sub-assy didn't appear in the BOM.

John H

John,

This is exactly what i thought and was hopeing was hidden. But alas, it isnt. Perhaps by SW2010 we can expect such logical features such as this one. *sigh*

-HoffY