I would like to export a multi-level BOM from Vault Professional 2012 to Excel, preferably by means of an easy (and fool-proof) procedure. I found that copy/paste fuctionality works after selecting all items in the BOM. However, the structure of the subassemblies/parts gets lost when pasting into Excel.
With the dedicated "Export" fuction the multi-level structure gets lost as well in the *.xls file. Exporting to html appeared to be a solution, but then I discovered that e.g. descriptions and supplier numbers are cropped when they exceed a certain length.
I know the "Export Items" fuctionality where you can add a BOM level indicator to each item, like e.g. 1.3.6. This information would be useful in the Excel document, but I prefer a less elaborate and more WYSIWYG approach than the "Export Items" procedure provides. Besides, the "Export Items" fuction is limited to released items only and sometimes I need to export the BOM of work-in-progress items as well.
Any help to find an easy way to export a complete multi-level BOM is most appreciated!
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Unfortunately there is not a good solution beyond export as html. I have logged this with the development team and product design.
Has there been any development on this topic?
Exporting a multi-level BOM which shows all associative drawings and attachments is something that would be very useful to me.
As of 2013 Vault Pro, this is still an issue. I can get a much cleaner BOM exported form Inventor than from Item Master. With a potential ERP link in our future, I was hoping to be able to export BOM's directly to our ERP system for the engineers, but the indented structure is just not there.
And I should add that the help files indicate that a BOM can be exported as a .csv file.... this is not actually an option when exporting. Perhaps this may make a difference?
Chris Benner
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