In this example I am using the ‘ Parts Only’ representation in the BOM. Place all your components into your Master assembly and fire up the BOM manager.Īssemble Tab > Manage Panel > Bill of Materials Copy the Item numbers into your Custom Fieldīegin by creating your parts and assemblies as usual.We will work through the following steps: The trick here is to ‘Push’ the item numbers from the Coordinated BOM down to the part level, and it’s pretty simple when you know how! The trouble is that, even if you have created your drawings from your carefully constructed LOD’s, as soon as you place an Item Balloon on your drawings Inventor will immediately load in all the parts that you had filtered out with your LOD! A Large Assembly BOM Workaround However this can create some pretty large assemblies which in turn can place a massive load on your computer, increasing file load times and making drawings pretty unwieldy.Īutodesk Inventor’s ‘ LOD’s’ (Level of details) are a great tool for managing large Assemblies. The BOM is created from this ‘Top level’ or ‘Parent’ Assembly, which in turn is used to create the parts list (or in our case – the Cutting Ticket). The usual way is to put all your Parts and Sub-assemblies into one ‘Master’ Assembly. In the Joinery Industry we don’t do many ‘Piece Part’ drawings – one stick of wood is pretty much the same as another right! Almost every drawing we create is an assembly drawing, and no drawing is complete without item numbers and a cutting ticket.Ĭreating a coordinated ‘Bill of Materials’ (or BOM) with Inventor is pretty straight forward. This tip was inspired by this post by Eric Small on MCADForums : This handy workaround has saved me time and frustration when adding Part number Balloons and Parts lists to my large assembly drawings.
I’ve been creating some pretty huge assemblies with Autodesk Inventor lately, and It’s really been bogging my machine down.
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