Drawing BOM

[Ellworx]

I've had to do a number of design changes and updates to corresponding drawings and have now discovered the Item numbers have all changed. It appears the item number can not be edited. My latest drawing has suddenly given new larger item numbers to everything, and does not include any quantities? I think the reason for this might be that I have moved components around in my design to make more sense now that I'm about to get it manufactured and the updated drawings are getting confused.

If I do a "new drawing" of the same assembly the item numbers return to 1 thru to 8 as expected. The quantities remain at 1 unfortunately even though for "seed tubes" there are 12 of them.

Can someone assist me in understanding how the BOM works and how the design heirarchy should be to achieve a BOM that makes sense.

Thanks

[scott.price]

Hi Ellworx - thanks for posting.

You are currently able to renumber what we call Item ID's - however this is done through balloons, so it does look like you will need to add balloons to the attached drawing and then renumber the components via the associated balloons with the Renumber Baloon tool in the BOM toolbar panel (available in the flyout menu of the panel) - once the Item ID's reflect what you're looking for in the Parts list, you could then delete the balloons. Apologies for the circuitous nature of this, we're still developing BOM functionality and usability.

Our current approach is to have the BOM reference the assembly level the drawing is created from with the Parts list listing the components or sub-assemblies that are immediate children of the reference.

Item ID's are not reused once the Parts list is created, this is what's resulting in the behavior your seeing with deleting a component and having the new component created in it's stead be given a new Item ID number. As an additional note, these IDs are currently stored exclusively in the drawing so renumbering will not be reflected back to the model or any other drawings that reference the model.

I'm not certain why you're not seeing quantities - would you mind attaching a screenshot of your Component Browser fully expanded in the model so I can understand the component hierarchy. Quantities should represent individual copied components at the same hierarchal level.

Hope this helps.

Best.

Scott

[Ellworx]

Hi Scott

I have attached two snapsots of the "Upper Frame". I've found if I do a drawing of say just the "seed tubes" I get a BOM with quantity of 12, however if I select multiple sub assemblies of the upper frame the quantities of seed tubes does not show.

I would expect that selecting "upper frame" only would not give quantities of two tiers down, but if I select all sub assemblies of "upper frame" individually then the quantities would show as it currently does if I select one sub assembly. To be clear I have listed three actions below. Action 1 and 2 do what I want, but action 3 I feel should include quantities of sub components.

Action 1

Select 1 component "Upper Frame"

currently: sub assemblies "shock Clevices" and "seed Tubes" are in BOM with quantities of 1 for each.

expected: the same

Action2

Select 1 Sub Components "seed tubes"

currently: quantities show

expected: the same

Action3

Select 2 Sub components "seed tube" and "shock clevices"

currently: quantities of 1 for each (same as action 1)

expected: quantities show for each sub component

Regards

Nick

[scott.price · Accepted solution]

Thanks for following up Nick -

In the third case you've listed out the Parts list is still looking at the two subassemblies as individual items of their parent assembly - so this behavior is expected from the way the hierarchy is working but I understand where you're coming from. We're currently working on some expansions to how Parts list works as part of our Multi-Asset work that may improve this by allowing multiple partslists on a view defined basis referencing various sub-assemblies and hierarchal levels.

Did the renumbering work out for you? 

If there are any other areas the BOM functionality is falling short of your needs or expectations, please let us know - it really does help us improve.

All the best,

Scott

[Anonymous]

The BOM seems a little strange, probably because it's not obvious how it is driven.  We are building a replica Edwardian locomotive, and thinking of using Fusion as our base system.  The example is the chimney.  A top-down model of the assembly of the deep drawn plate base, the chimney flue, and the decorative cap plus 24 rivets and 6 grub screws exists.  So far so good.  It's a bit much to show on a single drawing covering assembly & details, so we have one drawing for each of the main parts and another for the assembly.  Still looking fairly good.

Then we insert the BOM and it has the item numbers listed, but the part number which I would expect to be the detail drawing number is the name given to the component in the model.  The description, which I would expect to be the component name, is blank and it seems can't be filled in manually.  This would be where I would like to put detail for common parts not drawn, like the grub screw to standard and such like.

The material column really belongs in the detail drawing, no point in having to go to an assembly drawing for the manufacturer to find out if it is to be made of cheese or titanium!

Add to that the strange phenomenon of the missing item numbers allocated to parts that didn't get past the scheme stage - why?