BmBom

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Inserts a Bill of Materials (BOM) table in the current drawing.

Accessing the Command

command bar: bmbom

menu bar: Mechanical | Bill Of Materials

toolbar: Mechanical |

: bmbom

Prompts you in the command bar:

Insertion point [Name/Top level/Bottom level/Configure]: (Specify the insertion point or enter an option.)

Command Options

Option	Description
Name	Prompts you to type a name in the command bar: Table name <Default Name>: Type the name, then press Enter. Prompts you: Insertion point [Name/Top level/Bottom level]: Specify the insertion point or enter an option.
Top level	Creates a BOM of the top level components only.
Bottom level	Creates a BOM of the subcomponents. Compared to the Top Level BOM, the base_assy component is broken up into the base and bracket components.
Configure	Allows to add additional columns to your BOM table: Description, Density, Volume, Mass, and Parameters (for parametric components). Prompts you: Toggle columns [Description/dEnsity/Volume/Mass/parameterS/Back] <Back>: Choose an option: Description: adds the Description column. Density: adds the Density column. Volume: adds the Volume column. Mass: adds the Mass column. Parameters: If several inserts of the same parametric component exist in the assembly they will be grouped in different BOM rows depending on the values of their parameters. Back: Returns to the previous prompt. BOM with Densitiy, Volume, Mass and Parameters

Related Commands

Table - creates a table entity in the drawing through a dialog box.

-Table - creates a table entity in the drawing through the command bar.

Tabledit - Edits texts in a table cell.

BmMassProp - computes mass properties for the current model using densities assigned its the components.

BmUpdate - reloads all referenced components from external files and updates BOM tables.