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Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:48:11 GMT

Hi,

I am working at a small firm and struggle a bit to have a good way of working with the bom list.

I use standard partlist with itemnr, qty, description and part number. When i work in assemblys i can have both sub assembly’s with drawings and parts without drawings.

Every part or assembly has its own unique part nr. How do I separate parts/assemblies with drawings from parts/drawings without drawings.

or should I just have part number on drawings and some name on example bolts.

//ms

Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

Cadmanto — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:04:10 GMT

Parts drawing do not show up on Parts lists of assembly drawings. Whether your parts have drawings doesn't matter to the assembly drawing. If you want some indication on your assembly drawing to bring notice to the parts that do have drawings versus the ones that don't, you can certainly create some custom property that can be shown in the parts list.

Maybe if you went into a little more detail as to what exactly you are trying to accomplish that would help.

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Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:23:06 GMT

Thanks for you answer. Hmm ok, I used to work on a firm that did have a pdm system that handled drawings, assemblies and part but now I do not have this and I am trying to remember how we did handle this information and how this is done by the manufacturer. So in this case I need to keep track of all the drawings myself that belongs to the assembly? How does the manufacturer see which component he should buy and which he needs to fabricate? If you do any similar do you have an example of a bom list, would like to see one good example even if it is with a pdm system.

//ms

Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

Cadmanto — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:30:25 GMT

I used to work on a PDM system about 13 years ago. No I work with Vault which is similar.

Sounds like you are a single user managing all of this?

If you have Inventor professional, look into the Vault Basic. It usually comes with the Inventor Pro.

I think this would be a useful tool for you given your background history in what you are explaining.

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Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:35:00 GMT

My parts and assemblies all have the custom iProperty ACME_DRAWING. This iProperty is a column in my partlists. When ACME_DRAWING has no value, it has no drawing attached to.

Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

johnsonshiue — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:50:59 GMT

Hi Mattias,

I am sorry I am trying to understand your request better. Are you talking about some components with 2D drawing views in idw/dwg and some components without 2D drawing views in idw/dwg? Or, you are saying some parts (items) do not even have the files (ipt and iam)?

Many thanks!

Re: Best practice for BOM assembly vs parts

SBix26 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:14:18 GMT

Simplest, I think (since that's what I'm used to), is to make part numbers different between custom components (which have drawings) and purchased/off-the-shelf components (which don't have drawings). Where I used to work we used a different prefix for "Fabricated Parts" and "Purchased Parts", and even divided them into two separate parts lists because the columns needed were different: fabricated parts simply had part number, quantity, and description; purchased parts added manufacturer and manufacturer's part number. Either or both of those might work for your situation.

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