BOM Error... Ideas anyone?!

[hititfaster]

See attached. This is a new one on me! I was going through doing some final checks and spotted it. I thought I'd somehow broken the link in the box, but it's still blue (as opposed to an orangey colour when you manually enter a value).

BOM's have normally been the least of my worries so I don't actually know where to start on this!

 

[Nella95]

OPTIONS:

- Forced re-draw (ctrl-Q)?
- Have you tried re-entering the BOM?
- I manually re-entered a BOM number once and instead of turning an orangey color - it remained blue with the correct value.

 

[hititfaster]

Hrrrrrmmmmgggghhhh... (Grumble)

This sort of stuff does tick me off. Can we just have a more stable SW in the next release, please?

I tried a ctrl+Q, but I will give it another go. I'll do a restart too... that seems to cure far more than it ever should haha!

As for re-entering the BOM, do you mean delete it and create a new one? I could do, but I'm holding out for another solution, because I re-order BOM's for this client (fabricated parts first, numerically, followed by bought in parts) so it'd just be another job to re-do.

 

[SnowCrash]

When I want the BOM in a certain order I rearrange the display sequence in the tree. Tried that?

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
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[hititfaster]

OOh, no I haven't. Never considered doing it that way actually. Generally I try to get it pretty close when I build the model in the first place, but as I'm sure you well know, things can (and regularly do) change. It's not critical that the numbers are 100% ordered, but I like to have them somewhere close and at the bare minimum have drawings (= parts) first and bought-in's second.

I digress...

 

[hititfaster]

Hmm. Re-opened the drawing and it was still 11, 11 so thought I'd type in the 10 I want. First it went orange again, then when I double-clicked it, typed in 10 and hit enter it reverted to blue! I think there's something not right, but the balloon has updated, so I'm happy for the moment.

 

[Fixturedesign]

Sorting a BOM is relatively easy ... right click in the column you want to sort by, then left click sort. A dialog box pops up and by default it is ready to sort by that one column you were over when you right clicked. What I do is sort by "Vendor", and by default all fabricated items are shown first. It is default because the custom property is filled out with a space at the beginning of all fabricated items - " Fabricate" for example. I use our company name instead of fabricate. The space is what makes this vendor show up first.

To further assist, you can sort by 3 different columns, swapping ascending and descending orders. I've never used the "Group Items" - just never seen it there. Might have to now! I leave the last box unchecked "Do not change item #'s.

Since I have to adapt to standards for various companies, I like to stick a large note above my title block reminding me how I sorted the BOM. This note does not print, does not save out to PDF, but does save out on DWG's

Typically, I sort by vendor, then by sheet #, then by description. This keeps all of my hardware grouped by type.

This takes about 10 seconds max. Been doing it this way since 2007. Give it a try.