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Bill of Materials always open (assembly mode)

Bill of Materials always open (assembly mode)

I use the Bill of Material to input custom properties as I'm modeling.  It would be nice if I could keep this window always open.  I use dual screens and it could remain open  in the screen I'm not modeling in.  Would make it very easy to add Description, Material, Finish, Part numbers and Manufactures on the fly.  

13 Comments
Anonymous
Not applicable

You could undock the model tree and allow users to add custom fields (columns) to it.  Similar to the bill of material dialog.  This would give you more screen space for modeling and allow you to input custom properties on the fly.

dusan.naus.trz
Advisor

Yes, I agree. Bill of materials always open. Connecting viewers to the edges of the screen is it in Inventor 2016.  Please I want the same for a Bill of materials. Please make it this function this Inventor 2017. thank you

Anonymous
Not applicable

It's good, I want it too, please

jacek_stirba
Contributor

thumbs up, maybe 2017?

michal_wiselka
Explorer

thumbs up, maybe 2017? of course, It would be nice

hynek_raszka2
Explorer

It accelerates the completion bill of materials when we use the function length parts bill of materials remains on, yeah I want

lukas_hruby
Participant

Yes, I agree with user.

DRoam
Mentor

FYI, here are a couple other BOM-related suggestions that would go well with this:

 

Also, here's a similar request for the same thing but with the Parameters window: Permanently open parameters window

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

It`s a good idea. YES, please Smiley Very Happy

DRoam
Mentor

It seems there's a considerable push from Inventor users to be able to keep working on models while certain dialog boxes are open. Here's a similar request for the same thing again but with the iProperties window: Keep iProperties menu ON while change part selection.

WheresWally
Participant

Required.!

steinar_sorem
Advocate

Yes please! it`s a must have in daily Inventor engineering

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration

Many thanks for posting the idea, and tracked as [INVGEN-81549]

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