Dave,
If on the Substitution tab you change from "Sum of Values" to "First Value"
for the "When rows are merged..." field, does that give you the desired
results?
Rich Willis (Autodesk)
wrote in message news:4825227@discussion.autodesk.com...
Ver 9.
I have attached a jpg of how I have my parts list substitution set up.
A few months back I was looking at this very closely. I thought I had how it
works all worked out.
Here is my problem. I would like to use the COMMENTS field for multiline
descriptions (gear boxes, bearings etc) but I would like to use the content
center hardware, which uses the description field. What I was trying to do
was use come up with a way where I could use both by using the 'When exists,
use value of:' setting.
This was supposed to override the description column with the value from
the comments column (when it exists).
I could have sworn I had it working as I just described back then. I guess I
did not because I can't seem to make it happen now. When I have 'Enable
Substitution' on, and I substitute the 'comments' field for the description
field, the description column on the drawing goes blank for all items in the
BOM.
I have read the help file and searched here but could not find a good
description of
how this works.
If someone else knows how this feature is supposed to work, please let me
know. Thanks very much.
Dave L.