BOM

[leandrav]

I have recently started at new company. This company sells equipment for the laundry & catering industries.

Each machine that we use has requirements i.e. plug, hot & cold taps, etc.

All the drawings (just a top view) of each machine has been drawn & is in one drawing.

Currently we type out all these requirements in a title block on the side.

I would like to get to a point where if I copy & paste one of the machines from that drawing to another drawing the Bom/part list will automatically update. This will make things quicker, easier & avoid a mistake being made.

Can anybody tell me how to do this?

Thanks

[michaelsu]

Hi,

If you use AutoCAD Mechanical to create those drawings using part references and BOM, then when you copy both geometry and part references, BOM data will be automatically carried along.

[robert077]

Well Michael i would really like to see if that mehod can create BOM automatically..:)

Thanks