SOLIDWORKS lets you simply type a Invoice of Supplies (BOM) to prepare a listing of elements inside an meeting and present simply the pertinent data you want. The default conduct while you insert a BOM right into a drawing is to listing elements within the order by which the components had been inserted into the meeting. Most often, customers wish to current their BOM in a selected method based mostly on their wants. After altering the order of the BOM, it can save you the sorting standards as a template to be reused in your whole SOLIDWORKS drawings.
The best way to Type a Invoice of Supplies
- Handbook Sorting: You’ll be able to manually drag merchandise rows inside a BOM to replace the order. The arrow icon signifies the row might be positioned beneath the hovered row.
An arrow indicating the place the row might be positioned
- Automated Sorting: You’ll be able to order a BOM by right-clicking on the desk and choosing “Type”. This brings up a dialog field, which lets you organize your BOM based mostly in your preferences and permits for complicated sorting algorithms.
Automated type dialog for BOMs
The best way to Save BOM Type Settings
Once you type a Invoice of Supplies, SOLIDWORKS offers you the flexibility to avoid wasting these settings as a BOM property or a template. There are at present two strategies to avoid wasting type settings for a BOM: saving as a BOM property and saving as a BOM template. Once you save the settings as a BOM property, we will reapply the settings with out having to reselect the properties throughout the identical sheet. When saving type settings as a template, we will apply the settings by choosing the template for BOMs in different drawings.
Save Type Settings as a BOM Property
We will save type settings as a BOM property by right-clicking on the BOM and choosing “Type” to deliver up the automated sorting choices. On this menu, after making use of the kind choices choose “Save present type settings”. To use the settings saved as a BOM Property, right-click on one other BOM within the drawing sheet and choose “Type”. On this menu, you’ll be able to apply your saved type.
Making use of a saved type to a different desk
Save Type Settings as a Template
We will save type settings to a BOM template by right-clicking on the desk and choosing “Save As…”. The save dialog will seem, permitting you to specify a folder, file identify, and file sort. For saving BOM templates, the file format is “Template (*.sldbombbt).
To use the saved type settings template, please observe the steps listed beneath:
- Start making a BOM by choosing Insert>Tables>Invoice of Supplies.
- Choose a drawing view for the BOM to reference.
- To use the template, choose the star icon underneath Desk Template within the Invoice of Supplies Property Supervisor and browse to the saved template.
- Click on the inexperienced checkmark and place the BOM in your SOLIDWORKS drawing.
Invoice of Supplies template loaded into a brand new desk
Customizing the choices to type a Invoice of Supplies is a vital step in displaying solely the related data in a SOLIDWORKS drawing. Additional, having the ability to reuse these sorting choices in different tables throughout the identical drawing or in utterly totally different information is one of the best ways to make sure standardization throughout your group. Leveraging both BOM properties or BOM templates may also help you get in your method to producing higher-quality drawings quicker.
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