Solidworks BOM

3D Design Volume Model
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Hello

A question that I have been confronted with several times but without ever finding answers... So I finally turn to you.

During an overall drawing, I usually make a solidworks bill of materials on the overview by also inserting balloons.

I copy the sheet with this nomenclature to use it, change the views and link them to this nomenclature. I then create a new sheet similar to the old one. etc...

So far so good.

Only, I let you know, if by misfortune I delete a Solidworks BOM on a sheet, then it is impossible for me to copy another on another page to paste it on a sheet. How can we overcome this? I find it strange that we can't just get an existing nomenclature on another sheet.

 

I should point out that we are in SW 2014.

Thank you for your answers.

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Why make a copy of the bill of materials?

All views of all your sheets can be linked to the basic nomenclature.

In my multi-sheet plans, the nomenclature is present on the first one only.

 

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We don't operate like that here,

For assembly plans, on each step (one step per sheet in general), we put the BOM back with the parts concerned and hide the other lines in the BOM.

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You can elicit the bill of materials (right-click, split all the lines) and move a piece of it by dragging it onto another sheet

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5

Why not do a step-by-step configuration. The bill of materials will automatically follow according to the configuration of the assembly plan. When I have assembly plans to do with steps, it's the easiest and most coherent thing to do, and I even think you'll save time by doing it like that.

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We are already doing step by step with configurations, a drawing fuille by step configuration in general.

But that's not my question, the problem remains the same, if I delete a nomenclature on one sheet, I can't copy it from another.

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I don't really understand the problem! If you delete it and want to put one back in, just recreate it (SHIFT-N). The order will be identical to the other since the pieces have not moved... 12:49 p.m.

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Hello, otherwise just unlock the anchor point and drag your BOM onto the sheet of your choice.


Kind regards


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