BOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With ballon

jean_didier

Realy needed to make the all think use full at pro level !
Thanks,

andrew_troup

Hmm @jean_didier

when Google translates back into French, it gets "nécessaire pour rendre le pensent tous la pleine utilisation au niveau pro!"

I don't think that's what you meant? I certainly can't make any sense of it in either language

Could you post what you mean in French, if necessary?

brucebartlett

I read it as:

BOM's really needed to make at all useful at pro level.

brucebartlett

I can not live without BOM's with automated property propagation and linked balloons, absolutely essential for me. 

andrew_troup

brucebartlett said:

I read it as:

BOM's really needed to make at all useful at pro level.

This is a fun game! I think you're probably solved it

or perhaps: "really needed to make the whole thing useful" ?
(if you read the OP with a heavy French accent, which is what I should have tried before giving up, it seems plausible...)

Back on topic, I'll need BoMs too, for sure, but I reckon they have to be at least as powerful (and hopefully more usable) than in SW to be truly worthwhile

 (naturally, there's masses of more basic stuff I'd want to see first)

3dcad

I would need intelligent, sophisticated and controllable BOMs too. And not just in drawings, I would like to add BOMs in 3D view also and of course export png, pdf, xml, xls together with live embed to another website.

I think we need 'How to make Onshape BOMs awesome' -thread; I just haven't gave enough thought for the matter to give a good opening..

brucebartlett

Absolutely, not only at drawings but in 3d as well.

CaseRydell

@3dcad - Could you explain more about how you might use BOMs outside of drawings?  Should BOMs be their own tabs in a document and then inserted into drawings (and into other types of tabs)?

coleman

@CaseRydell I think BOMs should be their own separate TAB & then have the ability to insert into a drawing.  

In many cases we need to add components into a BOM list that are not part of the drawing.  

_Ðave_

WTH, Another Tab !!!  If there going to keep adding more tab types then we most certainly will need some sort of tab management first.

stevehess

Following @3dcad's suggestion I started https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/1561/how-to-make-boms-awesome?new=1

Please checkin there with BOM ideas.  We really want to know.

bobminer

@da_vicki - What sort of tab management are you looking for?  Sorting tabs?  Searching for tabs?  Hiding tabs? A table of contents tab? Other ideas? As the number of tabs increases in a typical document, I agree we'll need to make it easier to manage them.  

andrew_troup

How about if individual tabs could cascade, so that a main tab in the document might read (say) "Part Studios", and an RMB would reveal a scrolling list of all the Part Studios.
Tabs in current common use could be "pinned" as in Win8, so they appeared alongside the main tabs, in addition to being available one level deeper as above.

_Ðave_

I would like to see something very simple and basic That won't require much thought. @andrew_troup has basically defined my needs. Just let me create and name a tab that I can drag and drop other tabs into. Then as Andrew stated let me right click and get a sorted drop-down of the contents to select. Sorted How, well give me an option or at the very least alpha-numerically.

3dcad

@bobminer

3dcad said (in https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/1191/coloured-tabs-for-quick-identification ):

I would like to see only categories in a row at bottom and hover to open vertical list. Categories could be: Part Studios, Assemblies, Imports, Favorites, Latest etc..

Currently I ignore the row in bottom and use only the 'mega-burger' menu next to + -sign

Additional categories would be drawings and boms.