Hello
In a product design, I need to model volumes of fluid matter. In the product nomenclature, I have to sum the volumes of the same material, because the materials are ordered in kg or m^3. I also have materials packaged in strips, and I need to have the accumulation of lengths.
Is it possible without making manual bills of materials?
Kind regards
Lionel
Hello and welcome
If I understand the question correctly, the goal is to automatically add in a nomenclature the volumes of different quantities of the same material, the weights of another material, and the lengths of a 3rd?
Hello
In the properties of your parts, you can select which properties is used as quantity in the BOM.
In the case of a part to be ordered in Kg or m^3, it is therefore necessary to point to the mass or volume properties to be created beforehand if they do not exist.
Otherwise, there is the possibility of making calculations in the nomenclatures.
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Hello
Yes, that's a bit like that. For example, in a battery, there are different volumes of fluid.
I have a share per volume, but in the nomenclature I need a single cumulation of all the volumes of acid. It is this value that is the quantity ordered.
Hello
Retrieving volume or mass by properties works for drawings.
If I have different volumes, so different files, I have one nomenclature line per volume, but I need all the volumes to order it.
You then have to reorder the elements in the BOM according to their unit, check the option so as not to change the numbering, insert a blank line between each group of parts and insert an equation to make the sum.
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Ok, I see the principle. I would have hoped to do this automatically.
I'm going to do it like this.
Thank you very much for the answer.
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