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Adding Thickness, Length and Width as BOM Properties
william_lacey
Member Posts: 12 PRO
I've seen this requested a few times, or at least mentioned, but haven't dug in deep enough to see if a solution was made. So I took a stab at it. This is primarily for those of us who design around sheet goods, like plywood, MDF, acrylic, etc. Using this FeatureScript, you can automatically generate the values for a part's thickness, width and length, and show them in a BOM at the assembly level.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6654a7d89b7b8f6b3fa50497/w/ea9e632bba572e5aba9dc84b/e/ba48fc88829072c85b889c47
The only down side is that it will only be useful to those of us with a paid subscription since it requires you to add custom properties to your company settings. Apologies to those of you with a free account.
If you have any trouble using it, let me know and I'll look into it. There may be an issue with irregular shaped objects not pulling the correct property. I plan on digging into it to make sure it pulls the smallest possible boundary at some point, in my copious amounts of free time.