got a weird one for SW2022 sp05, I have several of the same sub-assemblies in my assembly and they are for reference so I toggle the exclude from BOM and also toggle all configurations. All looks good and when I save 2 instances toggle back to be on the BOM.
Getting annoying to have to keep changing it back and forth, is this a glitch or a guess by me something to do with PDM as lots of weird things at this place I have not come across myself at other employers.
Are you doing this in the assembly or in a drawing?
Is the assembly and/or drawing checked out?
Have you suppressed any error/warning messages (See System OptionsâŚMessages/Errors/Warnings)? Something might be failing and the message is being hidden from you.
Doing this in a assembly for a drawing, no warnings I am seeing but the assembly has errors in it as you can tell, powers that be donât seem to care of the quality of models we get, but same old story, hurry hurry and why do we keep having issuesâŚ
I have never had this, although installing fasteners from their library does something similar, you really canât exclude from bom until all the fasteners and patterns are created otherwise it toggles at random throughout all the configurations you have.
If they are strictly reference, have you tried using âenvelopesâ? This will change their appearance, remove them from mass calculations and also exclude them from the BOM.
At a minimum, it might solve your problem in this instance by over-riding the singular âexclude from BOMâ selection.
They need to be present, they are just not ordered at this assembly level, I have used Envelopes and they work well for certain circumstances although you get into issues at higher level assemblies if you have them shown, as you end up with visual duplicates. My work around is to make configuration and suppress the envelopes as they are mainly for a drawing purpose.
This sounds like an interesting problem. I usually wait to the drawing and bom to make sure that Items are excluded from the bom.
The other day I was working on a 3 sub assembly and multiple parts. To verify the drawing bom I ended up putting a bom on the assembly file. There you can still expand the SolidWorks bom, and exclude the parts llike you can on the drawing. This way when you do send the file to the drafter or who does the drawing you kind of already know the bom should come in right.
Glad it worked. Itâd be nice if you could set properties of a folder to change properties of files in the folder. I put all my reference items in one folder to keep track of them.
