Parts list Title

[Tim.Malkowski]

I am looking for a solution to adding a legend on a parts list.  

With in our parts list we identify certain operation that are required to be done to parts.  This done be putting an abbreviation in a column.  

Ideally what i am after is finding a way of adding a merged row at the bottom of the part list that will explain the abbreviations.  Similar to the title of the part list.

Initially there seems no easy way to achieve this by going into the style editor.

 Any suggestion and help would be appreciated. 

[-niels-]

No idea if this would work for you, but i'll post my thought anyway:

Depending on which properties you show in your parts list, you could add a virtual part to your assembly and add all relevant abbreviations to one of the property fields that will be shown...

Would that be a possible solution?

[salariua · Accepted solution]

I can only think of adding it to the Title which is a single cell, with ilogic.

Dim oDrawDoc As DrawingDocument
oDrawDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

Dim oSheet As Sheet
oSheet = oDrawDoc.ActiveSheet

Dim oPartsLists As PartsLists

' Process the rule, wrapping it in a transaction so the 
' entire process can be undone with a single undo operation. 
Dim trans As Transaction 
trans = ThisApplication.TransactionManager.StartTransaction( _ 
        oDrawDoc, "Change Title of Parts List")
    
	'I assume you ony have one Parts List on the sheet
	
	'get current title
	oPartsLists = oSheet.PartsLists
	oTitle = oPartsLists.Item(1).Title
	
	'ask for Legend
	oLegend = InputBox("Enter Legend", "Legend", "Mach=Machined, Fab=Fabricated")

	
	'set title
	oNewTitle = oTitle + _
				vbLf + _
				vbLf + oLegend
				
    oPartsLists.Item(1).Title = oNewTitle
	
'finish the transaction
trans.End 

[salariua]

@-niels-

You can add a Custom Part straight in the PartsList so you don't clutter your BOM but that will still obey the columns and you can't merge the cells.

I suppose you can just add a generic note on the drawing as symbol or hardcoded in the border, or titleblock if you don't fancy iLogic.

 EDIT:

far out and too complicated but you can manage your BOM or Parts List with Excel and insert the spreadsheet as custom table. You then need to add the legend to the spreadsheet.

@Tim.Malkowski Keep in mind that you can change the Direction of the table in Styles and have the table run bottom up and have the header at the bottom.

[-niels-]

@salariua Ah yeah, that would work too...

I didn't put that much thought into it, just posted what came to mind.

From the options you mention, if i had to do something for our drawings, i'd probably go with the sketch symbol method.

Especially since those are now contained in a symbol library, which makes it easy to access for everyone that needs it.