Ortho BOM

[clayton_cookCMW49]

I am working with a larger model drawing of piping that should be broken into 2 ortho drawings for clarity. When I create the BOM in the ortho dwgs from the viewport, it seems to be pulling pipe lengths from the entire model, not breaking the pipe length at the orthocube or matchline. This is causing pipe lengths that cross into both drawings to be double counted, while fittings seem to be reporting correctly. How can I make the pipes break according to the ortho drawing and show in the BOM correctly?

[jabowabo]

The only way you'll get correct lengths per view is to add welds at your match lines.

[Tomislav.Golubovic]

What year/version?

[clayton_cookCMW49]

Plant 3D 2024.1.2.

@jabowabo - I added welds on the matchlines with no luck. Please see attached snips, and pay special attention to the 1-1/2" pipe highlighted. Even with the welds, it's pulling the total pipe length on both pages.  The pipe connects pages (and now with a weld placed) at the blue arrow.

[jabowabo · Accepted solution]

If you have any tiniest bit of geometry of the pipe from the other area in your ortho, it's going to add that entire length to your BOM. The ortho engine uses blocks to reference each database item and pulls the lengths and quantities straight from there without regard to how much of the item is visible in the viewport. You'll need to adjust your cube to omit the pipe on the other side of your weld - or maybe hiding/freezing the pipe in the cube selection will work, not sure about that. I don't know of another way except to pencil-whip the BOM.

[Tomislav.Golubovic]

I've done the test and confirmed it pulls the whole pipe length. I'd say email support and list it as a bug. I thought it was fixed in a previous version but it looks like it hasn't.

[clayton_cookCMW49]

Will do, Thanks for looking into it.

[clayton_cookCMW49]

I ended up adding welds to each pipe at the location it would cross out of the ortho cube. Any pipes that would exit the cube at an angle I shrunk the view cube just enough to omit any slivers of the outside pipe. My drawings may be missing a couple of inches here and there, but the BOM shows correct. Thanks for the help.