- [Instructor] In many cases
we may have a large number of items in our product
and thus creating a bill of materials manually
might not be the most efficient method.
Luckily Composer also gives us a more automated solution
for generating perhaps larger BOMs as well.
So, to generate our more automated bill of materials,
I want to jump into my Workshops tab
and within my Publishing section
I have a BOM option,
so just clicking on the BOM Workshop,
my BOM Workshop panel will automatically pop up
on my right-hand side
and here I have a whole number of options
and settings once again that I can run through.
So, first of all, let's take a look at applies to.
So, I have a few options in my dropdown
to apply my bill of materials to.
For example, if I want to generate a bill of materials
for all of the visible geometry
or my entire product that's visible
in this specific view, I have that option,
I have all geometry or all parts,
so that's just going to grab everything
within my full project
or I have selection
and this of course now will be based upon
my selection, so maybe here I'll choose selection
and then just grab onto whichever components
I'd like to throw into my bill of materials.
In this case, let's say I'm trying to recreate
that exact same BOM I just created
in the previous lesson,
so I'm just going to jump into selection
and grab my propeller,
maybe my motor and I'll select my screws as well
and I'm just multi-selecting there with control.
So now that I've selected all of those components
that I want to throw into my bill of materials,
now I can just click on Generate BOM IDs.
Similarly you have a reset BOM IDs,
so if you ever want to change or delete
old bill of materials,
you could use reset BOM IDs as well.
In this case, I'm starting from scratch let's say,
so I'll click Generate BOM IDs
and again now you can see if I look over
at my BOM tree it's just recreated
that same BOM list that I generated
in a previous lesson
just with a single click.
Same idea here.
I'd probably want to turn on my BOM table
so that's just going to be the same,
I can jump into my Home tab
and say BOM Table and make sure
that's checked off
and again, grab the BOM table, resize,
change the text, whatever it might be
within properties but it looks
like I'm fairly happy with what I'm seeing here.
You have a few more options within your BOM workshop,
so again maybe I'll just reselect those items,
and so not only can I generate
and reset or delete BOM IDs here
in the more automated method,
I can also automatically create
or delete callouts or balloons
just like I did previously.
So, in this case it's really only three items
I'm running through,
so it's not going to save a ton of time
but you can imagine of course
if you have a larger project
and you're trying to throw everything
into the bill of materials
you might have 100 different components,
so doing those manually one by one
would of course take quite a bit more time.
In this case it's just the click of a button
and I can say Create Callouts
and now it's just automatically thrown in all three
of my callouts or balloons.
It's just going to kind throw them into some open space.
Of course, we might want to click and drag
just to fine tune or relocate those slightly
and again, I can grab these as collaborative actors
and make whatever changes as required,
so maybe I want to increase the text size slightly,
change the coloring, everything like that
controlled under my properties.
In addition to that there is a bunch of other options
within my BOM Workshop
that I can take a look at.
Generally I'm fairly happy with the Composer defaults
but you do have a few options that are worth
taking a look into.
You can compare by specific properties,
so how my BOM ID numbering is occurring
is based off say the name
or the part number
or whatever you'd like to choose here
or you can compare by the exact geometries.
So, it will itemize your parts
based on their specific geometry.
In addition to that, you have some BOM ID format
and callout options,
so I can jump in here
and this I could just do
to say change from numeric to alphabetic,
so instead of itemizing one, two, three,
maybe I want ABC,
or maybe I want a prefix or a suffix,
change my numbering system and so on.
Maybe instead of starting at one,
I want to start at 100.
And similarly with callouts,
I can customize some of my balloon callouts as required.
Once happy with all of these options and settings,
I might just want to update
or create a new view,
so I'll jump back into my Views panel,
right click on my existing BOM view
and just update view here.