Assembly BoM only showing as single part

[kairoscocca]

I have an assembly of about 60 components that I want to export a BOM of from the mechanical design workspace. When I select the "Manage" tab and the "BOM" tool the BOM only lists a single part (the assembly itself) instead of all of the external parts that are used in the assembly (the BOM even shows the single cube "part" icon rather than the triple cube "assembly" icon for the assembly).

Is there some way to get the BOM to pick up all of the other parts?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please share the file for reply.

File > export > save as f3d on local drive  > attach to post

günther

[Cursist-101]

Hi,

Could you add a screenshot of the model browser?

Not to jump to conclusions but from what you are telling it might very well be that you have not created components? Please note that a component and a body are verry different to fusion! 

• A component could be a part or assembly. You buy or fabricate a component. Components show up in the BOM. You can create a drawing from a single component. A component can be moved / mechanisms can be tested.
• A body is a description of the 3D volume. They do not show up in a BOM. You can't create drawings of a seperate Body. They have a fixed position relative to it's parent component. 

If you've created seperate bodies instead of components. Right click a body and select 'Create component from body'.

Hope this helps

[kairoscocca]

Thanks for the replies, unfortunately I cannot post this file as it contains proprietary designs (I know this makes troubleshooting very difficult). I will try to see if I can replicate this behavior on an example file but it seems whenever I make a new design everything works as it is supposed to (BOM updates as components are added to the design). In fact even just creating a copy of this design the new copy has the correct BOM. However I cannot just switch to the copy because I have design contexts in the original design file that do not transfer over to the copy (as far as I understand it).

None of the parts are internal components or bodies, they are all references to external components. The top of the design tree correctly shows the design as an assembly (three cubes) and each of the imported components shows in the design tree as a component (single cube) only the BOM incorrectly shows the top level file as a component rather than an assembly.

Running the text command "Component.AnalyseHierarchy" seems to also return sensible results (pasted below) so it really seems like just the BOM tool is not working properly.

Component.AnalyseHierarchy 
1. Number Of Unique Components: 42 
2. Number Of External Reference Documents: 42 
3. Total Number Of Component Occurrence: 78 
4. Maximum Depth Of Assembly from Root Component: 2 
5. Total Number Of Joints: 88 
 a. Number Of Rigid Joints: 71 
 b. Number Of Revolute Joints: 4 
 c. Number Of Slider Joints: 2 
 d. Number Of Cylindrical Joints: 7 
 e. Number Of Pin-Slot Joints: 0 
 f. Number Of Planar Joints: 0 
 g. Number Of Ball Joints: 1 
 h. Number Of Rigid Group: 0 
 i. Number Of RollPlane Joints: 0  
 j. Number Of BallSlot Joints: 0 
 k. Number Of BallPlane Joints: 0 
 l. Number Of PinPlane Joints: 3

[dominik_zarczynski]

@kairoscocca Were you able to reproduce this behavior on other file? If so, could you share the file? Unless you were able to fix it in the original file and would like to share the solution.