Bill of materials part quantity

chrisjspower · ‎04-26-2018

Is it possible to get the data of the bill of materials and use it in ilogic? in particular the part quantity?

Thanks

MechMachineMan · ‎04-26-2018

Yes, it is.

Where are you planning on running the rule from? What are you planning on doing with the information?

(The relevant API object is the BOMRow, which has the methods TotalQuantity and ItemQuantity available to it)

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-D475FABC-33CE-4F0D-B15C-C92805BB23A7

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chrisjspower · ‎04-26-2018

Joy! 😄

I plan to use the info to generate material usage data. for example the total length/mass/area of an assembly. It will probably require updating when more parts are added but at least that should be a small effort.
I'm going to try to implement your suggestion now, will update asap 🙂

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Bill of materials part quantity

Bill of materials part quantity

Bill of materials part quantity