BOM for a Large Sub Assembly

[Baheej]

Hello everybody,

I have two assemblies A1 and A2.
Assy A1 contains sub assemblies SA1, SA2, SA3 and SA4
Assy A2 contains sub assemblies SA1, SA3, SA5 and SA6

This is what I need to do:
I need to create drawings for all the sub assemblies SA1, SA2.......SA6, showing a BOM and balloons of all their components and at the same time (on the same drawing) show how these sub assemblies are assembled to the top assemblies A1 and A2.
I think the solution is in finding a way to add a "phantom" model of A1 or A2 in the drawings of the sub assemblies, without having that "phantom" part show up in the BOM of the sub assembly (without having to filter it out of the BOM table and without using shrinkwrap or exported geometries). Does anybody know how to do this?

Regards

 

[3dlogix]

Depending on what you need to do, you can create a new drawing, load the top level assemblies and then add each sub-assembly as a new model in the drawing.

Now, you can make a detailed drawing of each part and then each sub-assembly, but with its own BoM table.

If you want to make a BoM table for the top-level assembly, make sure to have it active in the drawing when you include the Bom repeat table.

You can then ERASE the views that show A1 and A2, but keeping the BoM table still visible.

Steve

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[Baheej]

I forgot to point out that both top level assemblies A1 and A2 have some common sub assemblies, but not all. Therefore, while I can add A1 to drawings of say SA2 or SA4. I cannot do that with SA1, because it is shared by both A1 and A2, which are two different products!

 

[Hora]

Do you want to keep the same index number for all common assemblies for both A1 and A2? If yes, there is a FIX option in the table where you can set the place of a component in table.

-Hora