BOM Issue

I'm running 2k5 SP0.1

when I insert a SW BOM into a drawing the header of the "quantity" column
always reads CONFIGURATION NAME/QTY. where "CONFIGURATION NAME" is the title
of the configuration I'm generating the BOM from.... now, this makes the
Quantity column about this wide:

|.................................................|

When, if the heading of the column was merely "QTY." it'd be this wide:

|........|

Since all of the contents are usually single digits.... I've tried
everything, modifying the title, modifying the column header and every time
I change it, it changes back to including the configuration name.....HELP!

George.

 

Delete the period after "QTY". Dug around in SW help files to find this
fix when I was setting up templates a couple weeks ago.

 

Wow.... guess it's a bug eh..... I'll give it a whirl and see if it works...
thanks for the tip

 

I am running 2005 and I hope they fix this as well... I wish there was an
option in the dialog box/feature tree when you first insert the BOM so that
you can have it so that it is selectable whether it attaches the config name
to the BOM QTY column... really this is only necessary if you're inserting
QTY columns for more than one config... they COULD make it smart so that if
you were only using one config it didn't display it but that would be far,
far too easy.
The thing is, you send your drawings to manufacturers and usually they don't
have a clue what's going on with your model and so configuration names just
confuse them.... to me it really is a pretty redundant feature.

George.