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ptc-7744841-Visitor
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November 15, 2012
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BOM and &rpt.index issue

  • November 15, 2012
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A few days ago I noticed Solidworks 2013 came to a very nice thing. When making an assembly drawing one can number (arrange) BOM ballons sequentially on the drawing and things get automatically re-arranged in the table. I think they are the first one with this option.

 

CREO doesn't have this option, or is there a catch?

 

 

My other question is: I'm using &rpt.index in my table as a part position number. So, I need the position number in part drawings. Is there a possibility to read index into part drawings as a parameter?


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DalbeerSinghSoh1-Visitor
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November 17, 2012

yes, u can pre-define a parameter in part model which u can call in part drawing and also use it in BOM for ur indexing or ballooning. if u want more on this plz reply i can make a video tutorial for this.

Thanks and Regard
- Dalbeer

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ptc-7744841-VisitorAuthor
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November 17, 2012

yes, I understand that. But I use rpt.index to give parts position numbers in assemblies. This is due the same parts go in different assemblies. I just want to "extract" this number to a part drawing.

If I give a position number to every part as a separate parameter it can cause problems in different assemblies. f.e. I have a part and give him position - number 10 and put this part into assembly which has only 7 positions. I hope you understand what I'm trying to explain.

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James621-Visitor
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November 17, 2012

hi,

You can load the assembly into your part drawing then after placing the repeat region you can simply fix the region index and then filter out everything except for the part in the drawing.

That way you will get only one line of your BOM with the &rpt.index RR parameter.

You still should consider the user defined model parameter suggested here, such as SORT, that will give you better control over the indexes.

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jsarkar1-Visitor
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November 17, 2012

I have faced similar problem, in a drawing there are assmeblies and bom with component marking through rpt index, and in the detail view of each component we can not have the automatic component marking. This is probably due to our view importing method. We placed a assembly and again placed the component of drawing assemblies as a new drawing model so it becomes independent.

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ReinhardN1-Visitor
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November 17, 2012

You can use component parameters in an assembly instead of &rpt.index. They are only valid in the assembly in which they were created.

Reinhard

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    jsarkar1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 17, 2012

    Thnx for this help. It will not be automatic however, solves my problem.

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    SylvainA.1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 19, 2012

    I think you cannot use the BOM position number in the part drawing simply because this part can be used in another assembly, with another BOM, with this part in another position...

    So how can Pro/E know which position to use?

    Am I clear enough?

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    ptc-7744841-VisitorAuthor
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    November 20, 2012

    Yes, I think that also. But, I hoped that somebody knows how to do it. My logic tells me, if this is parametric modelling, there should be a way how to "catch" the rpt.index (f.e. as a parameter from the specific file).

    Maybe some similar logic as in MS Excel tables. Cell names are the same, but there are sheet names and file names. So, it can be combined.

    I don't know. But I know that many people have similar problems and I didn't find a better way than putting the position number "by hand". This is a big problem for me and my personal opinion is that some other 3D modelling software understands this problems better and is much more customer-oriented.

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    ChiragSuthar1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    October 5, 2015

    Refer PTC case,

    CS46478

    Regards,

    Chirag

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