Can I balloon a sub assy for BOM instead of the sub's parts 3

[borsht]

I have a BOM, indented, with flat numbering. There are a couple sub assemlies in the Assembly that should be referenced in the BOM as 1 piece, or 1 item number. I have made all of the Sub Assemblie's parts "Excluded from BOM" so they dont show up in the list, and only the sub assy's name and balloon number show up in the list. My problem is adding the balloon to the sub assembly in the graphic area. When I try to add the balloon it only wants to reference the parts of the sub, and numbers them with an asterisk.

What am I doing wrong?



SW2010 sp 2.1, HP Z400 Workstation
Intel xeon w3580@3.33GHz,Win7 pro 64bit
Quardro FX1800

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If a sub-assy is to be referenced as a part, can you not save it as a part?

 

[borsht]

Yes I could. But then I would lose the Motion control I need out of that particular "flexible" sub assy. It's a toggle clamp that I have in my assembly.

SW2010 sp 2.1, HP Z400 Workstation
Intel xeon w3580@3.33GHz,Win7 pro 64bit
Quardro FX1800

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

The problem is that SW has only 3 main options for displaying a BOM.
Top-level Only, Parts only and Indented, but you want a combination of Top-level and Indented.

You could try selecting the origin of the sub-assy, or if it is not located at a suitable position for a balloon, create a suitably located sketch point at the top level in the sub-assy, and select that in the drawing.

 

[EEnd]

In your sub-assembly, go to the configurations tab and bring up the properties for the configuration used in the next level up. On the properties page there is a check box for "Don't show child components in BOM when used as sub-assembly."

With that selected you will not need to set the child components to exclude from BOM.

Eric

 

[tristram]

There is also a little fly-out bar on the left side of the BOM.
(I am not sitting in front of it, so this is from memory)
There is a small triangle pointing away from BOM, click that and it will expand.
You can do lots of things like adding like parts by dragging them on top of existing same part, or expanding and collapsing sub-assy's, hiding or showing lines, or re-arranging.
Play with that, it might get you to where you need to be.

-Joe
SolidWorks 2009 x64 SP 5.1 on Windows XP x64
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700

 

[borsht]

ALL THREE OF THESE SUGGESTIONS WORKED GREAT. tHANKS


SW2010 sp 2.1, HP Z400 Workstation
Intel xeon w3580@3.33GHz,Win7 pro 64bit
Quardro FX1800