Assembly

 

 

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This command creates the BOM of an assembly document.

 

Creation stages / Use:

 

Select the BOM > Assembly... command from the drop-down menu.

 

  1. Select the source assembly document.

  2. Choose if you want to use the representation or a set defined into the assembly document. It is not possible to use both at the same time for the same bom.

  3. Validate the command.

 

 

 

The use of the option "set" is memorized same as the sets names.

As a result, you can change the reference assembly document afterwards and if the new one contains as well the same sets, the bill of material will be properly updated.

 

This allows to create predefined bill of material template document for specific assembly set (as casing, motor...)

 

 

Available Options:

 

 

 

This option lists all representations of the assembly and allows to select the one to use to display the bom.

 

 

If sets have been defined in the assembly, one of them can be used to display the bom.

 

 

This checked option will group on the same BOM line different parts having all identical properties bom.

 

 

This option is conditioned by the activation of the 'Group by property column' option. It ungroups based on geometries. That means two lines with the same BOM properties but different geometries will be ungrouped. Without this second option, they would form a single line.

 

 

This option allows to take into account or not the modifications made only in the assembly.

 

 

This option allows to filter your bill of material to be able to exclude/keep an elements selection. You just have to check the filter to use to activate it.

There are 2 types of filters in this dialog:

  • Source Document: this area lists filters created in the source document (Entities Filter and Filter by Properties).

  • Filter Documents: this area lists the existing filter documents in the source project or in the project referenced by the source document. If the Activate cell is selected, only elements matching with this filter will be kept in the bill of material ( and consequently, all other elements will be excluded).

          Level origine type:

  • From current level: This choice allows to retrieve the property of a set from the first sub set where is the part is.
  • From top assembly: This choice allows to retrieve the property of a set from the first sub set

 

 

Strict: When Strict mode is enabled, the components are not taken into account.

 

Example: An assembly with the production type ‘Manufactured’ consists of three assemblies: one of type ‘Purchased’, one of type ‘Manufactured’, and a third whose production type is not specified.

Finally, each sub-assembly contains three parts: one with the production type ‘Purchased’, one ‘Manufactured’, and another whose production type is not specified.

 

 

Multi-level BOM with a filter retaining only ‘Purchased’ components

  
  
 
 

Strict mode

 

Assembly-only BOM with a filter retaining only ‘Purchased’ components.

 

 It can be observed that Strict mode displays only the line of the first assembly and that of the sub-assembly, without taking into account the components of the sub-assemblies
 

 
 

Strict mode is deactivated

 

Assembly-only BOM with a filter retaining only ‘Purchased’ components.

It can be observed that when Strict mode is not active, the bill of materials displays the lines of all sub-assemblies (even if not all of them have the production type ‘Purchased’), because they themselves contain parts whose production type is ‘Purchased’.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Modifications:

 

The modification of a BOM template used in an existing BOM will not update the existing BOM.

To modify the properties displayed in an existing BOM, use the Columns command.