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Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:27 GMT

Hi guys!

Does anyone know how to make include control valves tags or family description in BOM on isometrics. Thnaks in advance.

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:19:40 GMT

Omar,

By default, instruments are not output to the BOM table in the out-of-box styles. To add instruments to the BOM table, please add a new group for Instruments to the AggregatedList/Groups element. As an illustration, I have added such a group at the end of the XML snippet below.

Add below into </AggregatedList> in isoconfig.xml

</Labels>

</Columns>

</Group>

E.g. Red text are the location which should be added.

</Labels>

</Columns>

</Group>

</Labels>

</Columns>

</Group>

</Groups>

</AggregatedList>

If BOM is separated into Fabrication & Erection items, then we should also add above into ShopMaterials and FieldMaterials </AggregatedList> as well.

Chad

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:25:26 GMT

Hi!

Can i see a snapshot of this, where it would be shown on Autocad Plant 3d interface.

Thanks

Re: Instruments in BOM

TomislavGolubovic — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:36:48 GMT

You add it to isoconfig.xml in your \Isometrics\ folder.

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:41:59 GMT

Excuse me, I added it and it did not show anything in the extracted iso. I added the lines in red to the xml file for shop anf for field also, but it did not work. Did I miss anything?

Re: Instruments in BOM

TomislavGolubovic — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:59 GMT

when you extracted, you selected the correct Iso Style for the isoconfig you changed?

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:53:26 GMT

Yes! I tried three times, I attach the xml file for you.

Re: Instruments in BOM

karthik.nathan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:37:16 GMT

Hi Omar,

The IsoConfig.xml looks perfect! There is, however, one other thing you need to do. Now, that you have a way of identifying & grouping instruments, you will need to 'define' an area (or a row template) in your Iso.dwt template file so that the iso engine knows that it has to populate that area with the newly created instruments group. If you open up the Iso.dwt file, this is what it would look like.

Just copy and paste the 2 rows for 'VALVES <valves>' and rename it to 'INSTRUMENTS <instrument>'. The value in the angle brackets is the label that helps identifies what components should go in there (This SHOULD match the label in the newly created group in IsoConfig.xml)

That's it. Try it out and let me know. Hope it works!

-Karthik

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:18:36 GMT

Yes! It worked, It was quite simple.

Thank you!

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:39:49 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to get the id callout on the actual isometric called out. The bom portion of the instrument worked great based on your suggestion but I can't get the id (bom item #) to be called out on the iso. Any clue how to make that work?

Best Regards

Robert

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:06:51 GMT

I find the answer.

Still in isoconfig.xml file, in the setcion of <AnnotationSchemes></AnnotationSchemes>

add in this:

<ComponentSchemeName="Instruments"AnnotationStyle="Circle"Tag="XX"Alignment="FlatHorizontal"LeaderStyle="Always"Components="Instrument"Filter="Instrument"Fields="PartNumber" />

I put it almost in the end of <AnnotationSchemes> myself.

And it works. Hope it works for you too.

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:58:29 GMT

Thank you for looking at that.

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:31:32 GMT

The instruction in doing the copy and paste for the instruments seems quite tricky but it works.

Re: Instruments in BOM

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:28:25 GMT

Is this possible for the part id to be adjacent with the Pressure Indicator call-out.

Aside from that the dimensions rule for vents and drain is not anymore recognized when you placed custom instrument.

Re: Instruments in BOM

EricNyh — Tue, 06 May 2014 20:23:01 GMT

Old thread - but I was following this and I can't seem to get the instruments to show up in my list if I have my BOM table set-up to 'Simple BOM' style. If I change the table format to 'Grouped with category titles', it places the instrument information into the BOM.

How can I get a simple BOM with the instrument information included?

Re: Instruments in BOM

TheCadGuyDavid — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:51:06 GMT

Arch_Art,

It seems that there are some typos in the code you provided, could you proof it real quick? I can't get it to work, even after editing for spaces.

Plant 3D 2014

Thanks,

Dave

Re: Instruments in BOM

paragnewe — Fri, 23 May 2014 09:41:42 GMT

@karthik.nathan wrote:
Hi Omar,

The IsoConfig.xml looks perfect! There is, however, one other thing you need to do. Now, that you have a way of identifying & grouping instruments, you will need to 'define' an area (or a row template) in your Iso.dwt template file so that the iso engine knows that it has to populate that area with the newly created instruments group. If you open up the Iso.dwt file, this is what it would look like.

Just copy and paste the 2 rows for 'VALVES <valves>' and rename it to 'INSTRUMENTS <instrument>'. The value in the angle brackets is the label that helps identifies what components should go in there (This SHOULD match the label in the newly created group in IsoConfig.xml)

That's it. Try it out and let me know. Hope it works!

-Karthik

Hello Karthik,

I tried as per your suggetion.

But I cant get it in BOM..

Please see snapshot..

Please give me some tips for further move.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Instruments in BOM

paragnewe — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:37:31 GMT

dear All,
Any clue?

Re: Instruments in BOM

patpat79 — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:56:45 GMT

Hmm? Instruments in iso bom or bom report?? As far as I know, putting the right skey and the block for it in the iso solves the problem..

Re: Instruments in BOM

paragnewe — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 04:31:25 GMT

@patpat79 wrote:
Hmm? Instruments in iso bom or bom report?? As far as I know, putting the right skey and the block for it in the iso solves the problem..

Instruments in iso BOM...

I have add proper SKEY to instrument.

I tried to add instrument group into ISOconfig.xml

but whenever i add "instrument group" .. then iso will not generate and it will give an error.

i dont understand this mis-behave of acad...