- [Instructor] When you're working with
assembly specifically, the use of a bill of materials
can be really critical.
It gives you the ability to share with everybody else
what all the items are how to label them
and then include some information.
And this bill of materials that
I have on my sample drawing here
I've just got the part number which actually pulls
the file name and solid works.
And then also the custom property of the description
and the quantity.
We also have an item number
which is automatically generated.
I'm going to zoom out a little bit
and click on this bill of materials.
If we look at the various options that we have
you can show a top level only bill of materials
which will not show parts included inside of sub-assemblies.
You can show parts only just
the parts that are located inside of it.
So it will not include a assembly
but will include the parts inside of it.
And you can also include an indented view
which I find the most helpful.
It shows you a list of all the components that are in it
and it gives you a way to detail the numbering
so that you can tell which components are
inside of a sub assembly, for example.
So this crank sub assembly contains the crank shaft
crank arm and crank knob.
And that's denoted here by the 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.
If I click on this cross on the top left again
it brings us back to the properties of our bill of material.
I'm going to expand some of the options down below.
You can have all kinds of different ways
to display the information that
you have from your drawing view.
So if you have multiple configurations, for example
you can switch which configuration you list here.
Maybe you're showing one configuration
but you want to list a bill of materials for a different one.
You can do that.
You can decide how parts are labeled
when you have groups of them.
So should you display all of them as one item number
or as multiple item numbers?
Because each item,
even though it's the same part is
its own item in your bill of materials that
needs to be accounted for.
You have all those different combinations of how
you can display those items here.
You can handle what you do with missing items
and missing rows.
Again, we have some options here about
what numbers to start with.
So if you want to start with the number one
or some other number,
because you're adding this onto another bill of materials
somewhere else from another drawing that might be handy.
And then we also have some typical border options down here.
This is a really nice feature.
Like you'll notice right here.
I have all mixed lowercase, uppercase wording.
You can now go all the way down to the bottom
with the text format, click on all uppercase.
That is so handy when you're trying to make really
professional looking 2D drawings inside of solid works
engineers work with the uppercase,
you might not be collaborating with other designers
who use that to name their files
or fill in their description information.
So being able to turn that on and off is really handy.
So we've looked at some of the properties of how
to edit this bill of material.
You can also grab it up here using the move icon
and drag it around.
And it'll snap to various positions.
You can adjust it down on the bottom, right.
Dragging it out and resizing it.
When you click on it, you do get this toolbar
which gives you the ability to edit
the format of what you have going on.
So the alignment, again, creating all uppercase
or all lowercase
fitting text if need be
merging cells together if you want to.
So I can select the multiple cells
and merge them together or unmerge them.
I can also do some work with equations,
just a lot of great options here inside of
the bill of materials.
I'm going to go ahead
and actually select this and hit delete
and delete this bill material, and now insert a new one.
So I'm going to hit insert.
I'm going to go to tables
and I'm going to just select bill of material right here.
I have to now select my drawing view
because this is what's going to drive the information
inside of my bill material.
And now I'm back again to all of those properties that
we just looked at.
I now click OK.
And now I can drag
and position this bill of material on the screen,
and I'm going to just resize it a little bit
so it fits a little bit better and bring it over.
And there you go.
I've inserted a bill of material onto my drawing
and I've also have the ability to go in
and see what those various properties are and edit them.