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Assembly Length in BOM

avaya2012 — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:57:16 GMT

I am using Inventor Pro 2018. We are upgrading to 2019 in a few weeks but that should not affect anything. I am creating a drawing with a BOM and want to show a length of piano hinge assembly. The piano hinge is made up of two parts so it can actually hinge in the assembly. I cannot get the length of it to show up in the BOM without overriding it in the BOM itself.

I tried exporting the length from one of the parts then linking it in as a parameter in the assembly to no avail. My other idea was to put a dummy sketch in the assembly and use that parameter. That seems to work at first but it reverts back to Qty: each. I will go into the Document Settings - Bill of Materials - find my length parameter - click OK - click Apply. It all looks good until I go back into the Document settings and it is back to a quantity of Each. The BOM structure is set to Purchased. It doesn't seem to make a difference if I change it to Inseperable.

This seems like it would be something fairly straight forward. Am I missing something or is this not possible?

Thanks,

CWW

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

jletcher — Fri, 11 May 2018 19:29:36 GMT

In the assembly Parameters link the part with the exported dimension. And then export it from there for drawing.

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

avaya2012 — Fri, 11 May 2018 19:45:41 GMT

I did that as you can see in the first picture. The second picture is where I change the BOM base quantity. The third picture is when I go right back into the Document Settings. It reverts back to Each. I hope this isn't to cluttered and makes sense.

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

jletcher — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:24:15 GMT

You don't have it linked from the model .ipt look at my picture.

My link is in the assembly parameters.. yours is not a link.

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

jletcher — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:25:15 GMT

if you are in 2018 upload the iam and the parts

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

jletcher — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:43:13 GMT

Video for you

Re: Assembly Length in BOM

avaya2012 — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:56:51 GMT

I have it linked correctly now. I can see my value in the Custom tab in iProperties. Is there another step? I can find and select my length in the Bill of Materials tab in Document settings. It just reverts back to "each" each time. Do I need to do anything special in the drawing.

I am leaving for the day shortly so I will get back at this Monday.