How to set the Part list to parts only

[kenhoff]

The work flow for our group favors the use of Part Only BOM view as the standard.

Is there any way through ilogic or VB or editing the registry to set Part list not to default to Structured?

The biggest inconvenience is when someone accidentally misses changing to Parts Only and adds 100's of balloons. It’s a lot of effort, usually mine, to correct that.

[adam.nagy]

Hi,

You mean setting the default value for the Parts List insertion dialog's BOM View setting?

It always seems to offer the first value, which is Structured, no matter what you used before.

So it does not seem to save this setting anywhere.

The API in general does not provide access to any of the dialogs, so unless it is stored anywhere you cannot set it.

If you'd really need this then it would be worth logging this on the IdeaStation: ability to set the default value for the "BOM View" setting of the "Parts List" dialog.

By the way, you can use Process Monitor to see what registry values Inventor is looking at when opening the Parts List dialog:

But the settings there only seems to contain information about position and size and 3 other values which seems to be the same for all dialogs.

Cheers,

[kenhoff]

Adam,

Thanks for the response the process minitor seems like a useful tool.

I was hoping for the seldom used setting that is buried somewhere.