Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008

Posted on June 30th, 2008 in Assemblies, Drawings, SolidWorks, System Options by The SW Geek

Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are now available in the BOM. Using the BOM template we created last week on Creating Your BOM Template with a few further tweaks, we will go over the changes that applies to BOMs in 2008. Feel free to use any BOM template you choose since there is nothing custom about what we are going to do today.

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Creating Your BOM Template

Posted on June 27th, 2008 in Assemblies, Customize, Drawings, SolidWorks by The SW Geek

Earlier this month for Standards Tuesday, I spent a couple of weeks describing BOMs per ASME Y14.34-1996. If you missed them I highly recommend you go back and read those post since they cover a lot of information that would be helpful in creating your own BOM template, see Standards Tuesday - Bill of Materials and Standards Tuesday - Bill of Materials Pt2. Today we will be covering creating a BOM template per your own company standards. The settings and BOM configuration I will be illustrating here by no means is the only or best way to set-up a BOM they are merely my own personal preferences.

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Standards Tuesday - Bill of Materials Pt2

Posted on June 10th, 2008 in Assemblies, Drawings, Standards, Uncategorized by admin

Last week for Standards Tuesday I introduced you to ASME Y14.34M-1996. In case you missed it, it might be a good idea to read last week’s post before continuing. This week I will briefly describe the requirements for creating a separate parts list or BOM. ASME Y14.34M defines a Separate Parts List as:

A parts list prepared as a document separate from the engineering drawing to which it is associated and one that may be revised independently of the drawing.

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Standards Tuesday - Bill of Materials

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 in Assemblies, Drawings, Standards by The SW Geek

Over the next couple of weeks I will be covering Bill of Materials for Standards Tuesday, or Parts Lists as they are referred to in Section 5 of ASME Y14.34M-1996. Today I will concentrate on some of the elements that make up a BOM including which columns are mandatory and which are optional. Most material covered here will not be new to some of you but you may be surprised. When I was researching for this post I learned a few things that surprised me and I immediately recognized mistakes I have made in the past. I know I have learned things that will improve my drawings in the future and I hope you will feel the same.

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