Panel BOM for a single drawing

[dmray]

I'm doing some non-project ACADE work, but I would like to utilize some of the power of the software.  Specifically, I want to generate a 'panel' BOM for a cable assembly.  I created the drawing, adding the components manually so the intelligence is there.  Now, I would like to create the report associated with the drawing.  The problem is, since It's not part of a project, by default, it doesn't give me the option of selecting 'drawing' in the 'drawing' or 'project' selection section.  That option is grayed out.

I guess the $1.25 question is, is this even possible?  Am I missing an option/setting somewhere?  Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

And yes.  The thought is there to just create a single page project and run the reports, but I'd rather not do that.  Mainly because I don't want to, unless I have to.  Why do the extra work when one would think this is a simple process?

Thanks for the help

Doug (no.  the OTHER Doug...)

[drathak]

The problem is that the project file is what defines a drawing as an "electrical" drawing.

Don't think there is any way around it.

[sonny3g]

I have a project, called test, and when I need to do something similar to your problem that requires memebership in a project, I just add the drawing to my test project.  Then I can run the report and get the results I want.  Whether the drawing stays in the test project or gets removed depends on how often I think I might have to do an edit to that drawing.

[ccad2509]

if you have the part no assigned to a specfice attribute you can use data extraction tool in plain autocad it takes a bit of fiddling to make it work but it will dump a table of extracted attributes onto a drawing or save the data as xls/mdb file