Autocad Mechanical 2013-Model Documetation of Inventor files and BOM/Parts Lists

[Anonymous]

Is there any way of creating a Parts List from views of Inventor parts and assemblies in ACADM 2013?

Seems the answer is no?...What's the point of adding this fuctionality if you can't add a parts list or balloons?

How would you attach a part reference to a Inventor model?

Any ideas? Am I missing something?

Thanks

Alex

[michaelsu · Accepted solution]

Hello Alex,

In AutoCAD Mechancial 2013, you can attach a part reference to the drawing view geometry from inventor model or any other model sources. Also, you can attach a balloon to it.

But right now we cannot automatically get BOM information directly from inventor assembly file so you need to manually input BOM information in each part ref.

Steps:

1. you need to create drawing view from inventor models by VIEWBASE, VIEWPROJ, VIEWSECTION, VIEWDETAIL.

2. you invoke AMPARTREF to attach a part ref to drawing view geometry and then input BOM information.

3. invoke AMBALLOON to select the part ref and place a balloon.

4. Double click the balloon to select attach balloon button in Balloon dialog and then select drawing view geometry.

5. Invoke AMPARTLIST to place the part list into the drawing.

[Anonymous]

Michael,

Thanks for the reply.

It's unfortunate we can't leverage the meta data from the Inventor models. Hopefully we will be able to in the future.

Alex