Bill of material index

This command allows dimension index to be created in your draft document.

Creation stages:

Click the icon or select the Detailing > Bill of material index... command from the drop-down menu.

Select the reference bill of materials.
Select the part to be indexed.
Select the index style to use.

The reference bill of materials allows to index one view with several bill of materials keeping index number of each bom.
Bill of material indexes can be placed freely or automatically snapped to the magnetic border of the views depending on a detection margin (magnetic border). This magnetic border is configurable in the document's options.
The end of the indexes can be different if an edge or a face is selected. This end choice is done in the index style.
When an assembly has a bill of material document and is composed with several sub-assemblies, all with a bill of material document, you can select the bill of material to use when creating the bom indexes.
When we choose to project only one part of the assembly, we recover the index of this part (under condition to have only one line for this part in the assembly).

The part must be only in one line of the BOM to be displayed in a bill of material index. If there is many lines for the same part in the Bill of material, a question mark "?" will be displayed.

Available Options:

Assembly level:

When the selected part belong to a sub-assembly, the Edit... button allows you to navigate inside the tree structure of the sub-assembly in order to be able to choose the desired element.

This navigation can also be done thanks to the Shift key.

Angle:

This option allows you to indicate the texts rotation angle of the index.

Additional leaders:

When creating or modifying a manual or automatic index, this section makes it possible to index the same part several times. When arrows are added to other elements, the text of the index is then highlighted in yellow to indicate that it has been forced.

Format:

Decoration:

To use a framing other than that offered by default, select the cell Framing the select the appropriate icon.

Decorations are available: None, Underlined, Framed or Circled.

Except the type None, a margin can be specified

Margin:

Allows to adjust a distance between the text and its frame.

Radial Mode:

If this option is activated, the arrow origine is on the center of the text enclosing box and it is limited by its frame.

Color:

Select the color of the index text by clicking the button. The pipet allows to select an existing color, the black cross to remove the chosen color.

Layer:

Assign a layer to indexes. The layer can be created on the fly by clicking the "+".

Advanced options:

Extremities:

Symbol on edge / face: Select the type of extremity from the list.

Line style: Allows to define the lines thickness of the index.

Color: Allows to select Enter the angle of the end arrow.

Arrow length: Enter the length of the extremity arrow.

Modifications:

To modify an existing bill of material index, simply right-click and select Edit. You will then be able to modify the reference part .
To delete all automatic index from a view, open the operations tree and unfold the affected view. You will find the "Auto Index" operation that you can delete by right-clicking on it.