This may be of little use to you, but I will suggest it anyway. About a year ago I bought 5 copies of TurboCAD 5 at the local software liquidator, to give to my clients for the purposes of having an inexpensive AutoCAD type system. This way, they could print and manipulate my SolidWorks...
Hi Andy:
I ran into this recently when I modified a toolbox part and renamed it to a formal part number. I started with a piece of structural steel channel which kept showing up as a C8 X 13.75 in the BOM. I could not get it to change to the drawing number even though it showed up correctly...