Copy design on items

[smilinger]

It is easy to do copy design on CAD files and get new items and BOM, but some of our customers use vault to manage their design with no CAD models or with non-structured CAD files, so it is impossible to use copy design function on their files and promote new items and BOMs.

The only feasible way we found is to export items to a csv file, change the file manually in excel, and then import items with the modified csv file. But I don't think this is a good idea because it is very easy to make some mistake and it is not easy work.

We think a copy design function for items is needed here, it should just like the copy design function on files, we can choose the new item number for the copied item, choose which items to be reused, replaced, or copied as well, together with their attachments.

We also think a SaveCopyAs function for item is very useful in such situation, a new item will be created immediately with the same BOM stucture and same properties, then we can modify the new item as needed.

[ihayesjr]

Thank you for submitting the post. We will review this idea for the product roadmap.

[johannes.bauer]

Challenge:

Customer is using items a lot and needs to have complete structures copied

Proposal:

Copy Item functionality (with BOM) should be part of the standard product

[tschaeferZNBXX]

I have yet to find a way to copy the design of an Item Master record without custom software.  

[CadVanRiet]

Addition: In Vault 2016 you can open an Item and then File - Save as ...

This will create a copy of an Item, including the BOM. Problem is that only the Quantity will be copied, Unit Qty and Item Qty will be reset to "1".

regards, Silvia

[CadVanRiet]

For the Copy Item function I'd appreciate it if the item copy would get the same Category and LifeCycle as the original.

Now If you do a save as, both will be set to default.

Another nice addition would be the possibility to copy a BOM from one item to another item, including all quantities

[Bram_Baars]

We would like to see this as well.

One of the issues we have with the current implementation (we have in Vault professional 2019) is that item quantity is set to 1 for each row (see link below), and custom bom-row properties like BOMLENGTH and BOMWIDTH are modified in an unexpected way.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/vault-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

[tschaeferZNBXX]

This has been out there since 2012 and has 160 votes why has this not been added?

Looking through what was added for Vault 2020 and 2021 it appears some of those ideas had less than 10 votes?!?

[alchurchill]

it gets my vote...I agree with the above posts, to copy an Item BoM will be so useful and to be able to use the number generator with a CSV import will be even better...come on Autodesk!

[RobinKaltenbach]

This Idea seams to be very popular since years. Such a solution would help us a lot. @ihayesjr any chance this will be realized?