BOM

[Anonymous]

Hello

im importing some tanks from autocad, and i have parts that are built in inventor that come standard with the tanks, but when i put it all together in an assembly all the parts show up as a single part. so my question is, is there a way to make several parts show up as one part on the BOM?....

         -Mike

[Anonymous]

Can you make it a sub-assembly?

Thanks,

Randy Mabery

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[Anonymous]

Yes i can make it a sub assembly.

[Anonymous]

If you want those parts to show up as one line in the parts list, making them a sub-assembly in your assembly will do this.

Unless I have missed the point.  

Thanks,

Randy Mabery

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[cbenner]

Another thing you could do is assemble all the parts, and then create a derived part from the assembly.

[mcgyvr]

"demote" to a subassembly

[Anonymous]

in this  attachment shows what i need to be one part

[pauldoubet · Accepted solution]

One option is to change the BOM setting of the assy to 'Inseparable'. This is what I use for some items like a hydraulic cylinder that might be manufactured in house but does not need to be listed as individual parts on the Parts List.

Hope this helps, Paul

[Anonymous]

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@pauldoubet wrote:

One option is to change the BOM setting of the assy to 'Inseparable'. This is what I use for some items like a hydraulic cylinder that might be manufactured in house but does not need to be listed as individual parts on the Parts List.

Hope this helps, Paul

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Minor point, but I think the situation you describe might be better handled by setting the assembly and the components to Purchased.

If the assembly is Inseperable and the components within are set a purchase, the components will "show though" to the top level BOM. Where as if they are all set to purchase this won't happen.

* I'm going from memory on all of this so this should be verified by anyone reading this in the future.

[pauldoubet]

You are correct that the 'Purchased' setting will produce the same result. However the hydraulic cylinder I described was based on an actual customer I have done work for in the past. They manufacture their own hydraulic cylinders but they didn't build them for each job so the 'Inseparable' setting was used in that case. I am not sure which is the best option and most of the time it is a shot in the dark on the forum to know what will be the best choice.

Paul