I would like to include Terminals and other virtual parts in het BOM on my drawing. For this I need to generate a report. I have defined my own virtual parts but somhow their properties are not accessible. You can see 88 items but this is the total of all segements and pins. Somehow partnumbers show as "---". If somebody can point me in the right direction, it would be very much appreciated. I have included the report configuration file I am using.
Best regards,
Maarten
as far as I can work out Maarten, the only properties that are available in the report creation(,cfg) are what has been generated and applicable to the file you are working on.
Mine gets stored in the following location.
C:\User\"Your name"\AppData\Local\Temp\"name of your current file".xml.
I needed virtual parts to be shown on connector tables and after creating the report, I open the .csv file as delimited and by comma. Then I add a vlookup formula to look at a spreadsheet I had to extracted from the library using "export Library objects". It is only a work around and we are still on Inventer 2012 so not sure if later versions have fixed the ability to report on virtual parts or not?
regards
Tim F (Haulmax)
Hi, Thanks for the tip.
My workaround is to split the partslist between a normal partslist (assembly placed outside the worksheet) and a BOM report.
I edit the drawing numbers in the partslist to resemble the RefDes by hand. Pin and heatshrink tubing I add to the assembly as empty parts.
Then I create a seperate BOM report with only wire and segement information. And make this to look very similar to a regular partslist. Stick this below the partslist with title "WIRE PARTS LIST"
It is all semi parametric this way. Only you can quickly make errors with the type and amount of pins in the assembly. I would rather this would work automatically with virtual parts. I do not understand the usefullness of vitual parts otherwise.
Best regards,
Maarten
I was wondering if this was ever addressed again we are running Inventor 2015 and what I would like to see if data in the Virtual Part can be brought over to a nail board sketch and the BOM Report. The Terminals since they are part of the Harness and have a wire at that point I can bring it over but since the Plug does not have a wire associated to the pin I had to Identify the point and add the virtual part there. See attachments
Thank You for the Help
Mike
Hi, can someone help me showing how to create a new virtual part. I am planning to create various Looms and setup some attributes accordingly. Appreciate your help in advance. Thanks.