Drawing property in BOM?

I want a drawing property to show up in the BOM. Is this possible at all?
I will explain what I am trying to achieve here. We are building assembly
lines, marking the different stations with numbers. What we would like is to
enter a station number in the drawing properties, and automatically have
this number show up in the BOM, so our purchasing dept. can sort by station
no. and we can immediately see what parts are made/ordered for a particular
station. We can not put this number in a part property, because they might
be used in different stations. The drawing would be the best place. Anybody
knows how to do something like this?

 

You can use custom properties in your BOM. All you have to do is add the
same heading to the BOM template and then insert that template into your
drawing. It will then look for that information in any part listed in the
BOM. BOM handling as I hear is quite different in 2004 but if you are using
2003 or earlier this should work just fine.

Regards,
Corey

 

If you don't want to store the property in the part file, would it be
sufficient to reference the drawing property by a note on the drawing?
Drawing notes can reference properties on the drawing document itself. If
it really needs to be in the BOM, you could add configurations to your part
and have the "Station Number" property vary depending on the configuration
selected. The drawing would then reference the configuration of the part
that had the appropriate Config-specific property for Station Number. This
might be feasible if you are not already using configurations for a lot of
other purposes. Otherwise I don't think you can pull drawing doc properties
into the BOM.


Regards,
Brenda