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KB_975380413-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
August 7, 2021
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BOM Automation

  • August 7, 2021
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Hello Everyone,

 

I have to make utility to generate bill of material for an assembly , For this what steps I have to follow to automate the BOM.

 

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
August 9, 2021

You have several options for this.

One is to use ProOutputFileMdlnameWrite with export file type set to PRO_BOM_FILE.

This will write the assembly bill of materials to a file similar to the one produced by the "Bill Of Materials" command from the ribbon. From this point you can manipulate the file according to you needs.

Another option is to visit all features in the assembly model using ProSolidFeatVisit. You will have to look for features of PRO_FEAT_COMPONENT type and get the model name and count for each separate component

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KB_975380413-AquamarineAuthor
13-Aquamarine
August 10, 2021

Thank you , I am done with BOM generation using default BOM template.

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msteffke15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
August 10, 2021

To add another idea, We define a repeat Region on sheet2 of the assembly drawing.  a repeat region is quite common to assembly drawings.  The benefits are that you can add filters to control the appearance of items, and you can add any parameters if you wish.  I use toolkit to dump the table to a usable text file.  During that process I add some unit-of-measure conversion on certain parts where the Creo UOM differs from our Business systems.   

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