topic Re: BOM area in Fabrication CADmep Forum

BOM area

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:54:20 GMT

How do I get the BOM to show up as a certain size across multiple drawings. Currently I have to scale it every time I spool something new. It is a simple step that could save me a half a minute a drawing and make my drawings look nicer.

Re: BOM area

markcalloway — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:03:33 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I can see no one has got back to you so I will have a go at helping you although this isn't my primary software.

I found some instructions that should allow you to customise your BOM:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-plant-3d/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Plant3D-UserGuide/files/iso-style-tb-bom-configure-to-htm.html

Hopefully this will be of some use to you.

Regards,

Re: BOM area

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:43:08 GMT

Thanks but I am not using Plant3d (a program that I understand). I am using fabrication cadmep on regular AutoCAD. It does not have a project menu.

Re: BOM area

markcalloway — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:52:08 GMT

Maybe try this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fabrication-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Fabrication-UsersGuide/files/GUID-F765132C-A674-4C21-9408-C493B01C96B7-htm.html

Regards,

Re: BOM area

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:35:30 GMT

do you have your "report position" and "report width" blocks in the template you are spooling into?

Re: BOM area

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:59:25 GMT

I had report position, but was unaware of report width. So now I have a consistent BOM width do you know how to increase the height of the text. I played around with the text height scale increasing it from 75 to 2000 but nothing changed. Any suggestions?

Re: BOM area

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:10:21 GMT

Change the height by going into edit report, select your report, and change the text height/scale there.

Re: BOM area

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 03:15:22 GMT

Type in TableStyle, in that dialog you can see which style is in use and which text style within that table style is being referenced. I personally make mine reference a really small (1/16) text style and then use a lisp routine to set it to the actually desired size; seems to do a better job of dividing the columns that way.