Insert a partial BoM Table in a Drawing (visible elements only, or chosen/hand-picked elements only)

n_schoemaeker

Hi everyone,

I am making several drawings of a moderately complex assembly (smth like about a hundred part numbers), each drawing showing a specific section of the assembly (I've created Named Views (to get desired orientation) and Display States (to have only a subset of the parts visible on screen) for this).

I'd like to include a BoM Table on these drawings, but I obviously do not want the full BoM table, with all the hundred elements. Ideally I'd like to have only the visible parts. The idea is to then use Callouts to designate them.

Is there a way to either :

• do this automatically (like insert BoM of visible items only),
• or insert an empty BoM / table and only chose (by clicking or selecting) the parts I want to include in the BoM ?

Otherwise, IMO "Insert BoM" is strongly limited for any non-trivial assembly, as the table quickly becomes much bigger than the sheet.

Thanks in advance for your time and answers

wayne_sauder

@n_schoemaeker
 I have not found a way to do it yet, the workaround that I have used is to split the BOM and then put all the pieces needed on the sheet and move all the rest, off the sheet. This only works if you have to do that a few times, every time you split there is a new row for titles added at the top and that can make a big mess as well. 
 I agree this is something that needs to be addressed. Another problem is if you insert a multi-level BOM, I have not found a way to show the parent only with a callout, or collapse the BOM table to show only the parent. 
 Submit some improvement requests and post the links here, we'll vote them up. 

john_mcclary

I'd love to have 'exclude from bom' be independent of the bom itself, rather than every instance of the part in every document. 

There still needs to be granular control over the bom sooner than later 

S1mon

While we always want "one source of truth" there can be multiple BOMs associated with a given set of documents (R&D BOM, EE BOM, manufacturing BOM, etc...). Having to control these with configurations may or may not be the best way. I could imagine that there could be a separate BOM tab type which would allow more of the granular control and features (branching, versioning, exclude-from-BOM, filtering, level control, calculating sums of parameters, showing/hiding of parameter columns, etc). Right now just having it in a table on the side is nice for navigating an assembly, but it's not as powerful as it needs to be.

john_mcclary

No, configs are not good enough, since each config could end up being a duplicate on a bom

(a cylinder extend, and a cylinder retracted for example) 
I end up not using a bunch of configs that i want to, because it breaks the bom