EMX-Windows 10 Compatibility

Hey Steve,

We have put a lot of effort into the BOM to improve the behavior in EMX 9.

It has nothing todo with your Windows 10 Upgrade.

EMX 8 is not supported anymore. The last official PTC Version was EMX 8 M020.

You can download the EMX 9 M020 from the PTC Server.

By default EMX comes with a default parameter configuration.

In case the Parameter setup is customized, the behavior of the BOM might be different.

Some answers to your questions.

• that the BOM reorders itself even if you save out of the BOM and come back in immediately

The BOM does save the position id in the Parameter with the default value &pos_id.

This is a very important parameter. If this one does not exists the current BOM positions can not be saved.

• Restoring a set of excluded parts (eg 4 support pillars) to be included in the BOM restores only one of the four parts

Excluded parts are not summarized in exculded parts area. You need to restore them individually.

Note: Summarizing of parts can be controlled with the column Use to summarize. You can set up rules here. In the default config parts are summarized in the BOM in cas the PARTNAME and the ORD_NUMBER parameters are equal.

It is also important that you have a parameter definded whichthe default value &qty is assigned to. EMX will the count the summarized parts and write the correct value into this parameter

• Quantities are sometimes incorrect; sometimes even reflecting a zero.

This sounds like a issue with the Quantity parameter expalined above.

• Some item numbers go missing when the BOM is printed by populating a repeat region table in a drawing ie the item (POS) is there in the BOM UI but not on the drawing. Regen and updating the drawing do not fix this. Saving the BOM to the clipboard and pasting into Excel puts them into the spreadsheet.

This sound like an issue with the Position parameter.

I hope this explains some issues. If you need further assistance, just write me a PM.

Thanks and Regards,

Thomas