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Disassociated Solidworks BOM

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nrbastow

Aerospace
Dec 15, 2010
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I am having a problem with Solidworks BOMs. Whenever I open an assembly drawing with a BOM, the BOM table and text are brown, instead of black.

Does this mean it is disassociated with the assembly? Or is a problem somewhere in my system settings?
 
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When you open a BOM, it should you should have to click on the view it associates with. If you insert a BOM on the format layer, views are by definition not active. Maybe that's your problem.
 
I cannot insert a BOM into a format and I cannot reproduce the brownout condition. If the BOM is an Excel table instead of a SWX table, maybe that would cause the problem. I don't have excel, so I can't test the theory.
Can you edit or modify the brown tables?
"how now, brown BOM?"

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