- [Instructor] In many cases,
I may want to add additional information
or customize my bill of materials.
So let's say I want to add an additional column
to my bill of material table.
I can do that by jumping into my BOM panel here,
and within my BOM panel
I have a configure bill of materials columns button,
and if I just click that,
the configure columns window
will automatically pop up,
and here we can see
all of the available properties I have available
to choose from.
So I can just scroll down this list,
grab whatever property I'd like to throw into this table,
and move it over to my displayed properties.
Now it's important to notice here
that my available properties
of just my standard properties dropdown here,
that's all the properties within Composer.
But if I hit that dropdown,
I have a few other options as well.
What I can do is actually I can use meta-properties,
and this is very useful,
because these actually pull the properties
directly from SOLIDWORKS.
So if our SOLIDWORKS designers or engineers
threw in a bunch of information within
their SOLIDWORKS files,
we can pull from that information as well.
So let's say I'm just going to run through
a few of these properties,
and I'll try to find material,
maybe I want to add the material
to my bill of materials.
So I just grab the material,
or whatever property you'd like,
and just push it over to my displayed properties.
See, now it's been added to the list,
and if I hit apply,
I can actually see that that's now
automatically been applied to my bill of materials,
and I can see the material coming in to my table here.
Now I also may want to reorder
or reorganize my table.
So for example right now material's coming in at the end,
maybe I want to move it over so quantity is at the end,
and I can do that very easily as well,
I can just grab my material,
and move it up or down the list as required.
So I'm just going to move it up one,
and again hit apply,
and I can see those changes being applied,
so now I've added a new column,
I've moved it over,
so it's in the correct order I was looking for here.
And once I'm happy I can just hit OK.
So since that was a meta-property
it's important to note that those material values
were pulling directly from the SOLIDWORKS files.
That maybe our designers or engineers
input that information.
Once I'm happy with this again,
maybe just as a last step,
I'd want to jump to my view and update
that bill of material view,
such that it has this new column information in it.