BOM Sorting

How can you get SW to stop resorting the BOM when you make a change to a
part and update the drawing. We like to organize the BOM with Hardware
grouped together but if you modify an assembly it will place it at the
bottom of the BOM instead of keeeping it in its place.


Steve R

 

Hello Steve-

Have your tried reordering the assembly to acheive the desired BOM? The
SolidWorks BOM follows the Assembly order.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Why would anyone ever want to have to reorder an entire assembly just
to sort parts in a different order???? This is CRAZY!! With the excel
based BOM you could renumber item numbers to anything that you wanted
to and sort the BOM by item number. I've requested to be able to do
this with the SolidWorks BOM table but I don't think my request was
understood by my VAR and it seems that enhancement requests are seldom
listened to. I like the look and speed of the SolidWorks BOM table,
but it offers nothing in the way of functionality.

 

It only follows the assembly order if you choose that option.
Trouble is, I (and presumably Steve R) frequently want the assembly and BOM
orders to be different.

I also get the problem Steve reported and haven't found a solution yet.

John H.