topic Re: Structured BOM in Inventor Programming Forum

Structured BOM

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:37:56 GMT

I want to get the structured BOMView. I tried as below but when I go through the rows it isn’t the structured. I get the same as is shown in Model Data in Inventor. What am I doing wrong?

' Set a reference to the BOM

Dim oBOM As BOM

oBOM = m_oInvAssDoc.ComponentDefinition.BOM

' Make sure that the structured view is enabled.

oBOM.StructuredViewEnabled = True

'Set a reference to the "Structured" BOMView

Dim oBOMView As BOMView

oBOMView = oBOM.BOMViews.Item("Structured")

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP 1.1

Re: Structured BOM

YuhanZhang — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:33:13 GMT

Can you double check that the model data and the structured BOM view have different values/cells?

Re: Structured BOM

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:50:06 GMT

I’ve added more of the code. I’ve also attached a picture of my BOM and the resulting list from the code. As you see it’s equal to Model Data BOM. I had expected to get the list equal to the structured BOM.

PrivateSub findStructuredDrawingList()

' Set a reference to the BOM

Dim oBOM AsBOM

oBOM = m_oInvAssDoc.ComponentDefinition.BOM

' Make sure that the structured view is enabled.

oBOM.StructuredViewEnabled =

True

'Set a reference to the "Structured" BOMView

Dim oBOMView AsBOMView

oBOMView = oBOM.BOMViews.Item(

"Structured")

oBOMView.Sort(

"Item")

Call getStructuredDrawingList(oBOMView.BOMRows)

EndSub

PrivateSub getStructuredDrawingList(ByVal oBOMRows AsBOMRowsEnumerator)

' Iterate through the contents of the BOM Rows.

Dim i AsLong

Dim oPartProperty As Inventor.Property

Dim sPartNumber AsString : sPartNumber = ""

Dim sDrawingList AsString : sDrawingList = ""

For i = 1 To oBOMRows.Count

' Get the current row.

Dim oRow AsBOMRow

oRow = oBOMRows.Item(i)

'Set a reference to the primary ComponentDefinition of the row

Dim oCompDef AsComponentDefinition

oCompDef = oRow.ComponentDefinitions.Item(1)

' Get part number properties strings for the first part.

oPartProperty = oCompDef.Document.PropertySets.Item(

"Design Tracking Properties").Item("Part Number")

sPartNumber = oPartProperty.Value.ToString

sDrawingList = sDrawingList & sPartNumber & vbNewLine

frmDrawingList.txtDrawingList.Text = sDrawingList

frmDrawingList.Show()

EndSub

Re: Structured BOM

YuhanZhang — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:18:53 GMT

I double checked this issue and found it was already reported as an API bug, you can query the status of the bug with providing the ID 1291792. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: Structured BOM

mslosar — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:16:15 GMT

Where do you go to query the bug number?

Re: Structured BOM

YuhanZhang — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 02:33:03 GMT

You can either contact our product support if you are in ADN(Autodesk Development Network) or raise this here to get its status. The bug is still open. If you have business case for this bug please contact our product support.

Re: Structured BOM

mslosar — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:27:34 GMT

Doubt that I have standing - i've just encountered the same bug and was wondering if it was fixed. Apparently not 🙂

Thanks.

Re: Structured BOM

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:12:50 GMT

After more than one year I have the same problem here using Inventor 2015 SP1, Update 3 (Bulid 203). Why is this minor problem not fixed after two years?

Re: Structured BOM

danmorick — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:49:05 GMT

I am still having this problem with Inventor 2016 SP1. Despite calling the Structured BOM I get the order of the Model Data BOM. This seems like a major issue to me. It's been about 5 years; do we have any progress on this?

Re: Structured BOM

MechMachineMan — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:51:41 GMT

This almost seems as if it might have been by intent and that they are lacking the minor functionality as people would think of it.

Instead of having multiple collections for each BOM View, they just have 1. And it's called a VIEW because it's just that; the way you look at the BOM.

Calling the enumerator of the BOM collection isn't specific to any view; it's to how it's organized in the collection.

If you want to output a list that mimics what you see in the different views, you have to manually create the algorithm that outputs it in that fashion.

Ie;

If you want a BOM list to be output by item number (as you might see it in structured), you can access the item number within the Structured view and print the list by checking to ensure that the number of the current row is the next in your series to output. Likewise, this can be done for other entries.

I think it's more or less a memory thing, rather than lacking functionality. Mind you, they could likely fix this simply by adding more elements to the BOM that specify what order it appears in the desired BOM view, and just query/return that value.

Re: Structured BOM

A_Sandbote — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:07:01 GMT

Hello,

i think this issue is still be unfixed... i just get in trouble with this wrong sortet BOM View...
have you any news ?

Thanks for any information about the case !

regards Andreas

Re: Structured BOM

YuhanZhang — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 06:47:53 GMT

Hi Andreas,

I checked the status of the defect, it is fixed in Inventor 2018, can you check it with the Inventor? Please let me if any more questions.