BOM management

I have a flattened BOM with everything sorted by the Part Number column from smallest to largest. Some of the parts, mostly Standard Content fasteners, do not have a part number assigned and they show up empty in the BOM as expected. However, when I sort by part number, some of the empty cells are at the top, and the rest…

Is there a way to default the column width of BOM tables in the assembly? I have a BOM that is used to check that relevant metadata has been filled out prior to releasing an assembly but this is only viewed in the assembly and not used on drawings. I've found that the columns default to the same width when I create a new…

A concrete example I am dealing with is gaskets: we often use adhesive gaskets that come on a roll and may have several different cut bits to make door seal. We do want the CAD model for the gasket but we end up with several parts that should all have the part number of the gasket. However in ERP we have the part number is…

So I started to create a product with the frame tool with the intention of creating a series of similar products. However once I started getting into PLM (OpenBOM) in this case. I realized that designing in this way would not be scalable. Since only the composite part is inserted into the assembly OpenBOM would only import…