Properties

Josiah_Harthcock

Viewing properties of a part directly from any of the levels of the assembly without opening the individual part would be awesome!

MBartlett21

You can view it in the BOM

lougallo

This is our solution today.  Does this work?  Adding an option to open up the compoennt property is also something we are looking at.  Let me know if that is what you are after?

Josiah_Harthcock

mbartlett21 said:

You can view it in the BOM

The BOM is very useful when it come's to say viewing all the part numbers of an assembly, however if you wish to interact with a number of fields, and your assembly is large, the BOM is very slow loading and hard to find your part to edit as you must change the views to locate your part. The feature would actually work best to populate the BOM

MBartlett21

@Josiah_Harthcock
You can edit it in the BOM

lougallo

We support cross highlighting, editing and have more improvements for performance to come.  Thanks for the feedback.

brucebartlett

Josiah, I use the BOM all the time for adding my properties. I find a little lag but get generally I can not complain about the opening time. What I dislike is adding extra columns to be able to edit data and then having to remove again to make the BOM in the drawing format. I'd love to see some different custom filters on what properties we can see in the BOM and be able to save this for future docs and custom drawing formats. In some ways I find OpenBOM better for laying out and adding for properties, I use this for projects which have costings or other calculations and will do properties while in there, the spreadsheet style drag down auto fill is one feature I like. 

@lougallo on the cross highlighting, it works well from the BOM  to show all locations but I also really what it to select an item in the workspace and have it show the row on the BOM, this would be ideal for adding properties from blank parts

@mbartlett21, this trailer was done with your AusBeams FS. 

Josiah_Harthcock

lougallo said:

This is our solution today.  Does this work?  Adding an option to open up the compoennt property is also something we are looking at.  Let me know if that is what you are after?

I would use it to populate the BOM as the BOM is often rather incomplete.

Josiah_Harthcock

brucebartlett said:

Josiah, I use the BOM all the time for adding my properties. I find a little lag but get generally I can not complain about the opening time. What I dislike is adding extra columns to be able to edit data and then having to remove again to make the BOM in the drawing format. I'd love to see some different custom filters on what properties we can see in the BOM and be able to save this for future docs and custom drawing formats. In some ways I find OpenBOM better for laying out and adding for properties, I use this for projects which have costings or other calculations and will do properties while in there, the spreadsheet style drag down auto fill is one feature I like. 

@lougallo on the cross highlighting, it works well from the BOM  to show all locations but I also really what it to select an item in the workspace and have it show the row on the BOM, this would be ideal for adding properties from blank parts

@mbartlett21, this trailer was done with your AusBeams FS. 

We have tried openBom a bit and should maybe explore it more.

Some of our BOM's take over 30 seconds to open however I shouldn't complain
Absolutely agree on highlighting parts in the assembly and having them highlight in the Bom. would be a big plus!

oleg_shilovitsky

@Josiah_Harthcock

I'd be happy to help you with OpenBOM if you decide to explore more. OpenBOM has an option to create a template to define what columns are coming from Onshape to BOM. 

Josiah_Harthcock

oleg_shilovitsky said:

@Josiah_Harthcock

I'd be happy to help you with OpenBOM if you decide to explore more. OpenBOM has an option to create a template to define what columns are coming from Onshape to BOM. 

Thank you! I will look into OpenBOM some more here in the next several weeks, so thanks for the offer! 

oleg_shilovitsky

@Josiah_Harthcock
 
OpenBOM for Onshape is FREE again  for all options. 

https://medium.com/@openbom/new-openbom-subscription-model-brings-back-free-openbom-application-for-onshape-2e226ede27d9

We are working on improvements for multiple document use cases and Release management integration. 

Josiah_Harthcock

oleg_shilovitsky said:

@Josiah_Harthcock
 
OpenBOM for Onshape is FREE again  for all options. 

https://medium.com/@openbom/new-openbom-subscription-model-brings-back-free-openbom-application-for-onshape-2e226ede27d9

We are working on improvements for multiple document use cases and Release management integration. 

Very nice updates. Thanks for the heads-up.