Export of Vault BOM as a simple list

[oransen]

I'm asking this for a friend, I've never used Vault, so please bare with me...

He wants to know if there is a way to get a list of parts from each "drawing" with two columns, the first column is the "parent component" of the item in the second column which is the "child component."

I imagine that the first column will have a lot of repeated parent components.

Is this possible, does it already exist or does it need some VB code?

TIA

[wayne.brill · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I believe they should use the Inventor API to do this. The Vault API has the GetBOMByFileId() function but I don't think that will provide a reliable solution.

This blog article explains this:     

http://justonesandzeros.typepad.com/blog/2012/11/the-bom-pipeline.html

The Inventor API help has examples for accessing an assembly BOM. See this example "Public Sub BOMQuery()". The API help is here on my system:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Local Help\admapi_18_0.chm"

It is farily easy to convert VBA code to VB.NET.

Thanks,

Wayne