Drawing parts list/cut list

[christopher_hermansson]

Hi!

This is a very simplyfied example of a common situation for me. We're making lots of pipe and profile 1-off builds and a correct cut list is really important. Is there really no way of modelling something like this so that it shows up correctly in the drawing parts list? That is 1 item with a quantity of 2.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

take a look at Bommer and Cut List

günther

[christopher_hermansson]

Thanks for the suggestions. Export Cutlist was really good at getting the acual cut lengths correct, while Bommer failed at that. Bommer has a lot more options, but since it can't even get the dimensions correct it's just useless. Export Cutlist takes some more cleaning up and formatting in excel or such, and it failed to export an assembly due to a lock nut. But I guess the big downside of both of them is that they aren't connected to the balloons in the drawing. I can get i to work with renumbering the balloons, but that feels like a hack.

Attached image of my test model

[laughingcreek]

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@christopher_hermansson wrote:

...Is there really no way of modelling something like this so that it shows up correctly in the drawing parts list? That is 1 item with a quantity of 2.

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looking at the picture you posted, you used mirror to get the second component.  mirrored components are by definition not the same as the original component, so will always show up as a separate component, not an instance of the original.  if you want your example to show up as  1 component with 2 instances, you need to use one of the pattern features instead.  in this case probably a revolve, qty 2, with an appropriately selected axis for rotation.

[christopher_hermansson]

But that won't work because then both pieces will have the hole, since patterns creates identical copies. What I want is an independant copy, from a certain point in time, that can have it's own features (usually holes). (Or a way to manage the drawing parts list)

[laughingcreek]

In a manufacturing environment, parts with different hole patterns will have different part numbers, even if everything else about them are the same.  different parts=different components.  I'd be pissed if I ordered 100 items with the same part number, and half of them had a different hole pattern.