Page Numbers reflected in BOM

[Anonymous]

When I do a detailed set of drawings I first start with the overall and ballon the part showing the BOM.  The following pages will reflect the detailed parts balloned on the first page.  Is there a way, without haveing to manually type in the BOM, to reference which page this detail is on in the BOM?

Thank you for your help

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

The short answer is "No".  This might be able to be done through iLogic.

The other thought is you could tie a custom property in with the parts and have this property show up in the BOM.

Are you looking for thie sheet number to be a seperate colulmn in the BOM?

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[mrattray]

If you excluded your layouts from counting (in edit sheet) then wouldn't the sheet number correspond to the item number in your parts list (assuming you ordered your parts list to have all make parts before purchased)?
Just thinking backwards....

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply. 

Thank you, I am just an Intern right now with a company but would like to help better the drawings they provide.

Yes I would like for it to be a seperate column.  As of now I just create a column and title it and put in the page number I located the detaild part.  I was just hoping for some possible way to do this.  Would the be a possibilty of writing something through the VBA editor to create a function for this?

Short answers are never as exciting. Specially if it is No haha

[Anonymous]

Not sure if I quite understand what you mean.  As of now I do not have an automatic way of reflecting the page number in the Bill of Materials for detailed drawings.  Right now if I change anything in the drawing set then I have to manually change the page number in my BOM.

[Cadmanto]

VBA, iLogic very similar.  I am not a guru in this area, so I am the wrong one to ask on that.

That is what I was thinking might be your only option.

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[mrattray]

I was suggesting that you make the item number in your parts list = the sheet number for the print. It's not such a good plan as I think about it.
It shouldn't be too difficult to write a macro that checks the model referenced on each sheet and checks against your parts list. Updating a column at that point is the easy part.

[Anonymous]

Ok thank you.  That at least helps to narrow it to a special area.  I am no expert in that area either.  Hopefully someone has tought of the same idea and maybe has a program wrote for it.  One can only pray.

[mrattray]

That's quite possible. Have you searched for anything?

[Anonymous]

I need to keep the Item number since that is how I would ballon the item. 

I will need to do some research and figure things out on how to write macros.  I have not done such a thing and may look in to it more.  Thanks

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

...The following pages will reflect the detailed parts balloned on the first page. ...

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Hi almeitl,

I have a couple of questions about your workflow:

1. Are the other pages detailed with one part to one page? Or do you have multiple parts on the pages?
2. Are these parts ever used in other assemblies, and therefore used in other drawings?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[PaulMunford]

I think you need to separate out the part number and item number.

If you create your own iproperty you can set it manually in the part and then map it across to the part number and drawing number.

By creating your own part number - there is no danger of inventor overwriting it on your behalf.

The item number only exists in the top level assembly file. You don't want to reference the whole assembly for a drawing off just one part!

[Anonymous]

Hi Curtis,

The answers to your questions would be:

1.  Most commonly there are multipul parts to one page for the details.

2.  Ususally they are not used in other drawings.  Each part is used in that specific assembly only.