Exclude items from BOM

brian_rupp

Can you make a checkbox in the part properties to say "exclude from BOM".  For example if I insert a STP file or any sub assembly with many parts, all of the parts are listed in the bom and I only want the entire sub assembly part number to show. 

brucebartlett

No check box that I know of. I believe what your after is a nested or indent BOM which can not be done yet, I have request this as option. At the moment I have been using the google sheets app and manually building BOM's out in various tabs to get what I require, the top levels is done by linking to the lower level sheets. Another option is OpenBoM they maybe getting close to achieving nesting, I am sure oleg_shilovitsky could fill us in on that . 

oleg_shilovitsky

@brian_rupp
@brucebartlett

Sorry, somehow I missed that message. Thanks @stevehess for forwarding! 

There is no such thing "exclude from BOM" for the moment. However, all suppressed parts will be excluded from the BOM.

The easiest way to do it is to have Part custom property for that purpose. I hope soon it will happen. Nested BOM is another way to hide parts from a BOM. 

We are very close to support nested BOM in openBoM and Onshape. In coming openBoM update (this weekend), you will see the first version of multi-level BOM view. It is still WIP, but you will have an idea about next steps. You can expect nested BOM generated from Onshape already in February production update. 

I can get on call and demo / explain. 

brucebartlett

Thanks, @oleg_shilovitsky, I'm looking forward to trying your latest release too. BOM's on drawings is exactly what I need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_QuPT1zA8&utm_source=openBoM+Community&utm_campaign=3f23b71495-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_02445da5f2-3f23b71495-163353429

oleg_shilovitsky

@brucebartlett

Thanks for your feedback!

The latest openBoM update is in production, so you can try few important improvements we made (eg. links back to Onshape from openBoM and geometric size feature improvement ( we now automatically arrange it as L, W, T even it is oriented differently in part studio. 

 Multi-level BOM and info-panel view is there there. Even we are not building it automatically, it can give you some idea to experiment with info-panel view. 

More things will be coming next month.

 

Cyberphil

I believe this functionality now exists in stock OS, at least based on this tech tip:

https://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/tech-tip-excluding-parts-or-assemblies-from-the-bom-in-onshape

I can't seem to achieve this in my models though. The only option that shows up on rclick is expand assembly. Is this a subscription feature only?



Edit: It seems as if the exclude from BOM works fine for most things, but it seems to be unavailable for some linked assemblies for whatever reason. 

oleg_shilovitsky

@Cyberphil this is a really old thread. A lot of things changed in OpenBOM and Onshape since that time. 

In OpenBOM you can get Exclude from BOM and filter it in user-defined view or just filters. It is very flexible and convenient.

OpenBOM template defines what data you will see in the grid. 

If you have questions, please contact support@openbom.com.  

Cyberphil

Thanks you very much! I'll give it a try!

MBartlett21

@Cyberphil

As you can see, that is a sub assembly of a linked sub-assembly.
To exclude it from the BOM, you will need to open the sub-assembly a level above that and exclude it from there, then create a version.

mthiesmeyer

@Cyberphil

Based on the grey highlight, it appears that you don't have edit access to the metadata of that assembly. Currently, the `Exclude from bom` status is persisted to the metadata of a part or assembly and applies to all instances of that object. If you do not have edit permission you will be unable to exclude as of today. Please create an improvement request (or find an existing one) to have `Exclude from bom` apply on a per-assembly basis.