Combining Custom property fields in BOM

Hi All,

I've got a couple of custom property fields I want to combine into one
in a BOM column.

Say for example I've got a part description (e.g. SIDE PLATE) and I've
got a configuration description (e.g. L/H).

Currently, in my BOM, I've got a column for each. It would be much
tidier if I could combine them into the one column in the BOM so that
it reads "SIDE PLATE L/H".

Is there any way I can do this? The equation feature allows me to
insert one custom property field, but when I append another, it stops
recognising it as a custom property and just prints out the syntax of
what I've entered in the equation editor.

Any help gratefully accepted

George.

 

Dear George,

I had been doing same kind of thing for one of my customer where he
wanted me to put part number and description in the same column. For
that I created one more custom property and added all the information
in that that particular property. And finally you can call that
property in your BOM.


Regards

Deepak

 

George,

I believe the answer you seek is on a message on this forum. Link
here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...ine+Custom+properties&rnum=2#183a60d3a25f3ae8

Matt Lorono
http://sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solidworks/

 

Hi Matt,

That helped actually (it was actually my question in the other thread
too!). I didn't realise you could call custom properties using the
$PRP:"" designation like you can in notes on a drawing sheet. Now I
can just make up a statement of $PRP notations and it works!

Problem solved! Thanks!

 

Hi John,

Surely the information reported in a BOM will be that of whichever
configuration the drawing the BOM is linked to is? I've run some tests
and the "combined" column seems to report exactly the same as if I had
a separate column for each custom property. What you're reporting
sounds more like a bug than an intended shortcoming though.

Under what circumstances does this problem manifest itself?

George.