Hello people, question abt part numbering, BOM-s, workflow

velimir_družinec

dose someone now about best way to name parts in automate way, and giving them nubers ? If there is some custom feature ? Or best way to do it. I run on some feature script, where I can give name just to one part, and if i copy it it will keep that name…but its not so efficiant if i work in frames? Can you guys tell me, what is best workflow for you for making stairs, or steel structure like warehouse or something like that ? And what is good feature scripts for this line of work? I wish a can extract more data from this BOM, like mass properties, and if I can put my own formula for how much of paint i will spend in one meter of pipe.. It would be great if I can combine Bom and cut list in one with part numbering :-) Maybe I am to much demanding :-))

I appreciate suggestions, thanks , Velimir

MichaelPascoe

Here is a tech tip on Onshape Automated Numbering. Looks like you may need to have a company or enterprise level Onshape account.
Onshape also has a native integration with their Arena PLM software. Which can handle part numbering on a large scale.

As far as custom features go, the new Routing curve is really helpful for the pipe or frame routing. I made a modification to it (Routing Curve+) so that you can stay in relative mode while referencing entities to measure up to.

You can use the Property / Attribute feature to store data in your part properties which you could access in the BOM.

Cut list+ allows you to store the cut information into the name or description of the part.
While this is helpful, there is not currently a native solution for getting frames and pipes into a proper BOM in the assembly.

Here is a basic example of how to do a simple building structure using the fame tool:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1ea40b0008a7c24569318eca/w/5e80571c5242e…