BOM won't update material

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I’ve got a BOM on a sheet and the part didn’t have a material assigned originally. I opened the subass’y then the part and added the material to the part. Updated & saved the part, updated & saved the subass’y. Went to my sheet - still no mat’l. Updated the drawing - same thing. Verified that material was on the part, restarted - still the BOM won’t update to include material for that part. What am I doing wrong?

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Check the part properties and see if there is anything in “Configuration Specific.” That seems to override the “Custom” tab. I’ve found SW will fill in the Configuration Specific table when I do a “Save As” on a part.

3

You can also try to use “restore original value” on the specfic cell of your BOM.

4

Is your Material linked to a custom property that is in turn linked to in the BOM?

5

Thanks, I tried that but it didn’t work.

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Didn’t find anything like that, thanks.

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Well, that might have been part of the problem. I went in to the properties and added Material to the list & entered what I wanted. That seems to have done the trick.