Drawing Excel BOM units

In SW2004, the units displayed in the Excel BOM are controlled by the
drawing units, and can be consistently changed back & forth between decimal
& fraction by changing the drawing units.

IN SW2005, at best, it appears to be inconsistent. Once in a while I can
get it to do it, but for the most part, I'm finding that to get fractions, I
have to set the model file units, rather than the drawing units.

The main issue here is that for some jobs, we are still stuck on Ft-In
(which you already know my opinion) and to help improve that, we have a BOM
that allows the use of the length model property, rather than a number typed
in. That way, if the length changes, the BOM updates.

Anyone else seeing this?

WT

 

Has this gone to deaf ears?

Wayne, we see the same problem with the "Excel based BOM routine" in
2005. We would like to go forward with the "Non-Excel based BOM
routine, but find some shortcomings. Specifically, we show multiple
configurations of an assembly on one drawing sheet. We can't get the
Item marks to consistantly match from view to view when we do this.
The "Excel Based" BOM was more flexible.

Even if we could use the other BOM Table, why did they change the
Excel Based BOM routine if they intend to obsolete it in the near
future!

Our fight goes on!

 

Fixed in SP1.1!

WT