SW2003 BOM's in large assemblies

[max5876]

Hi,

I'll attempt to explain this problem the best I can.....

I am dealing with a complex product consisting of a large number of sub-assemblies (total number of parts anything up to 15,000), for which an overall Bill of Materials or "cutting list" needs to be produced.

I am looking for a way to group individual parts from different sub-assemblies on the BOM by using an identifier or similar (eg, parts X and Y are different and from different sub-assemblies but are both "bolts", and need to appear consecutively on the BOM).

To illustrate it another way, the best I can achieve internally to SW2003 is:

Sub-ass. 1
X
Y
Z

Sub-ass. 2
X
Y
Z

whereas I am looking for:

Ass. 1
X
X
Y
Y
Z
Z

At the moment I am getting around the problem by exporting the data into an Excel sheet and applying filters that way, but I can't believe this is the only solution. I know that one can give a part a custom attribute to identify its "type", but as far as I know these cannot be used to filter/sort by?

This is driving me nuts, so any help would be very greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Max

 

[SBaugh]

Have you tried using "Show top level assemblies and Parts only"?

SW03 doesn't make cut-lists yet... in SW04 you can make cut-lists per sub-assembly.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[TheTick]

I was browsing this site. It was in the signature line of fellow eng-tips user gedkins.

http://www.deltagl.com

They have some BOM tree utilities that may be of interest.

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