- [Instructor] Once we have an assembly drawing,
the next logical step is to bring in a bill of materials.
To do that, I'm going to go ahead
and choose this view right over here
and come down here to Insert, Tables, Bill of Materials.
Now we have a bunch of options here
as far as how we want to bring that table in,
it's top level only, or parts only,
or we can do an indented.
I'm going to choose a top only one for this one.
If you had different configurations here,
you could choose which configurations to bring in
and it would then tell you which parts
were in which configuration,
but in this case, we only have the one configuration.
You can define how you want a group together those parts,
you can keep missing rows and items,
you got a bunch of options here,
we can even change the increment
and what we start at for the numbering.
We can also change the layer that the table is on,
but for right now let's just go ahead
and use the default values, click on OK,
and that should bring in this table.
Okay, we need to make a little space,
so I'm going to grab this view here,
slide that over and just make a little space on our drawing
so we can include our table.
All right, that's looking a little better,
and now we've got space for this table.
Now, once I have the table,
if I zoom in here, you can see that
nothing's really organized very well,
and I generally like to have things
in alphabetical or numeric order.
So we can do a little bit of a sort here,
so if you go to the top, right-click on that column,
and I can come down here to Sort
and I can sort it by part number ascending or descending,
you can do a multi sort,
so you can sort by another column if you wanted to,
and that's pretty much all you need to do.
Click on that, and here we go.
So it sorts 'em, but notice it didn't sort them
the right way.
It starts with P1, then it goes to 10, 11, 12,
and then you got P2 down here.
So it's doing them by blocks of two,
it's only sorting by the number,
so it's not perfect, but it's pretty easy then
to just grab a row and just bring it up here,
and notice down here at the bottom,
we've got the three through nine,
so it does group 'em together, makes this handy,
and it really depends on how you label your part.
So this labeling, or the part number scheme
that you used here is probably not the best one,
'cause it doesn't sort well.
but it's pretty easy to get this looking pretty good.
So right there, you can see, we pretty much are sorted.
There it is, so a couple small modifications here,
So all the parts are sorted now,
and then notice the descriptions are missing
for most of these items.
So this first item here does have a description,
the rest of 'em do not,
also sometimes you might want to include a revision.
So if you want to add a column, I can right-click here,
I can say Insert
and I can add a column to the right or left,
I'm going to put one to the right,
and then you can link that to a custom property
or unit of measure, an equation,
you got all these different things here
if you want to add that column.
I'm going to click on CUSTOM PROPERTY,
and the property I want to link to is a revision.
Now you have to have these custom properties in your parts.
So if these are not available in your part
then you definitely will not have the access to grab them,
but in this case, I do have revision,
and I'm going to go ahead and grab that there.
I can squeeze that column a little bit
and we're looking pretty good.
Now to continue on,
what I'd like to do is probably go into
all these individual parts here
and add their correct revision,
and add some kind of meaningful description
to each one of those so you actually know
what parts are where,
and a good description will really help that out.
So to open up any one of these parts,
you can click on them, right-click on that row
and say Open Part,
that part will open up, click on No here,
and then come up here to the custom properties,
and this is where you'd fill it out.
So right here, notice only Price is in there,
you can come down here and add a description
as well as your revision.
And over here, I'm just going to call this one Rod,
and revision A and then click OK.
So that information's been added to the custom properties.
Now, if I head back over here to my sheet,
notice that Rod has been added to my description
as well as my revision, and I should be all set.
Of course you can add a whole bunch more custom properties,
but in this example, I just want to show you
that you can quickly add those custom properties,
and they will show up in the Bill of Materials
as well as when you make a drawing of that part,
it will also show up in the description
as well as the revision for that part.