SWISGR8
Mechanical
- Oct 20, 2005
- 199
Please dont shun me, but we currently dont use SW BOM's yet (I cant stand it) but when I have played with them I noticed a concerning "stability" issue. Let's say you have you SW BOM setup and have the basic situation of where you have selected to use the "Follow Assembly Order" for Item Nubmers. Now if you go and change anything WRT order in the actual assy, then affected items will change. There could be many other scenarios such as maybe you choose not to use "Follow Assembly Order" to avoid this, but then you could accidentally select it and then everything changes and if you dont catch it, then you're in a time-wasting recovery mode. To me the ideal thing here is to not use this option, but to enhance that, I would like to be able to disable the "Follow Assembly Order" control all together (ie gray it out), is there a way to do this. I realize there are working conventions that can be set up etc (such as "dont use this"), but it can still happen and then you're wasting a bunch of time going back and fixing or not catching until too late and end up with a documentation debacle, especially when dealing with revs and you dont catch until too late.
Any ideas or enlightenments to my understanding of this?
Thanks,
Mike
Any ideas or enlightenments to my understanding of this?
Thanks,
Mike