Show all fasteners in a project

[DavidTunnard]

Hi All,

I have a top-level assembly with many sub-assemblies inside it. I was wondering, is there an easy way to show all the fasteners used across the entire project on one parts list?

All the fasteners have been saved locally. It has all been drawn on Inventor 2022.

[CCarreiras · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Yes, it's possible.

Create a "normal" part List, edit the part list, select FILTER and create a filter for Content Center parts only.

Also:

All the content center parts are marked as "Purchased". You can set other non Content center parts as purchased and have a part list with the parts you need to buy (Content center and non-content center parts).

Note; you can have several filters applied at the same time:

In BOM, you have to set "all levels" to have also the content of the sub-assemblies:

[DavidTunnard]

Thanks for the info. I did not realise the purchased filter would still work even when the content centre files are saved locally.

However your answer I think will only work for the top-level assembly. What I am wanting is a way to show all the fasteners from all the sub-assemblies too. Also, maybe I'm asking too much here but would be perfect if it also totaled each individual instance of the same fastener.

It would be a very useful feature if it isn't already available somehow.

[CCarreiras]

I believe youre thinking wrong...

As i said, in BOM, activate all levels.
In Part List, open the (+) nodes to show sub-assembly components in the part list.

And that's it, you get the result you want:

[DavidTunnard]

Ahh, I'm sorry. You're right. I'm a dumb dumb.

Yeah, I think I can work with this. It gives a list of every fastener but does not group duplicates from unique sub-assemblies together. I should be able to do something with a spread sheet to total everything though.

Thanks!

[Alexander_Chernikov]

When you insert a parts list for the first time, you can also select "Parts Only"

[CCarreiras · Accepted solution]

If you wanna have all the duplicates summed (from the main and every subassemblies), you can create a "parts only" list.

Note: you can't have both types of part lists in the same document, so, you can create a doc to have all the structure detailed (Structure list), and another document for purchase proposes and use the parts only list type to have the total of each content center component summed.

[DavidTunnard]

Ah, I see. Yeah, that works! Thank you!