Inventor - Exporting BOM to preformatted Excel Document

[dwilmerN5339]

I'm hoping to import an ASSY's BOM into a premade excel sheet. I have the BOM set up so the columns match the Excel sheet, but I want the BOM to be placed with the top right cell located at B15(Rows 1-14 are dedicated to calculations). In addition, it would be optimal (but not a must) if I could:

   a) not have the BOM headers sent to the excel sheet, just the data

   b) have the formatting of the excel document stay the same (all odd rows are grey for ease of finding information) 

Thanks!

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[Gabriel_Watson]

Here are some resources to help you:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ilogic-and-vb-net-forum/ilogic-code-to-export-bom-to-excel-f...

A whole class on the subject of iLogic BOM to Excel:

https://youtu.be/RKzsH4orQR0

More ideas:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&...

[A.Acheson]

What Inventor version are you using?

With the manual BOM export there is limited/no export to existing excel template. This may have changed in last version however. 

The partslist export has always had the ability to export to a template. I’m not sure if any of the formatting is preserved. But you can certainly pinpoint the start rows and do some small adjustments.

Let us know if it is a manual export your looking for or you will certainty get the solution in an iLogic/VBA solution but it is a rabbit hole that is fruitful but can be long. One example would be export the raw data to excel then copy and paste the data into your template using the excel functions by code. 

[dwilmerN5339]

We are using Inventor 2023.

I'm willing to export the BOM manually or via iLogic; whichever works best for moving it over. I hadn't thought of exporting the data raw to excel and then having excel transfer the data to the designated file, I'll have to look into that as I'm sure maintaining format between excel sheets is easier than from Inventor to excel.

Thanks

[A.Acheson]

In the link kindly posted by @Gabriel_Watson 

there is a code for exporting the complete BOM as raw data to a temp sheet and then copying this worksheet to the template. The better method might be to copy the contents of the sheet and then paste. But you can check what works manually then replicate by code. 

The second method mentioned in that post is to export the BOM line by line.

This works by targeting individual BOM lines and Columns. 

I have not tested if this will preserve the template formatting but it would be the easier of the bom exports if it does.