Filtering out parts in BOM that are not connected to component? WF 4.0
Hello,
I'm sorry if I've overlooked this but I've searched and have found nothing. I'm working on some installation drawings for a large assembly and I've run into a minor issue with the repeat region on my drawing. What I'd like to see is my repeat region only showing the info for parts that are connected to a certain component. For instance, lets say I have a metal box with the same bolts on all sides of it. How do I show just the info for the bolts that are connected to the top of it? The sides of this box are all separate pieces of an assembly. I could just make a simplified rep. of the side I want and then manually select what bolts I want shown, but this is not a very efficient method when I have hundreds of the same bolt spread throughout the assembly. Is there a way I can filter out the unwanted parts/quantities from my repeat region so it will only report the components connected to a certain side of the box? Maybe by using the Exclude By Rule command? Maybe I could restructure the bolts so that they are part of the "side's" subassembly (instead of the top-level assembly)and then use the Flat/Rec command to expand the subassembly (this would also be inefficient). I imagine someone has encountered this before. Please let me know if there is a way to do this without having to manually pick out components.
Thanks,
Sam
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