Composite children in the BOM

JoshBarnett

Hi everyone

I am about to release an assembly with a bunch of composite parts (that represent welded child parts)... I now realize that there is no dependency relationship between composite parts and their child parts (not unsurpising in hindsight!).... which means these child parts do not show up on the assembly BOM

Any work arounds? Am I missing something?

Thanks
Josh

billy2

You could control the welded state with a configuration by simply suppressing the composite feature at the end of the feature list. That way you can configure the part studio weldment in an assembly and toggle it's representation to address your desires. This would work for a drawing also.

Seems like a composite is the correct feature since I'd want to treat a weldment as one part after welding. 

I know it'd be nice to create a weldment drawing accessing the same part studio in which case you'd toggle the welded button off which suppresses the composite feature.

You'd have to remember to insert new features before the composite feature and then maintain the composite feature by adding/removing dependencies. Also remember to "roll to end" before leaving weldment part studio.

shawn_crocker

I don't like the idea of a welded assembly being treated like a part. I also don't like how onshape defaulted to this view of a welded assembly with no easy way to work things differently. I customized the cut list feature to apply material and properties directly to the parts. I don't use the composite part. I put the parts into an assembly and then everything work well for me.