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TomBurton1-Visitor
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November 5, 2014
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Items in more than 1 sBOM entry?

  • November 5, 2014
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I'm trying to create a set of Service Kits in the sBOM. The problem is that some of the parts (and assemblies) listed in the eBOM are used in more than 1 Service Kit.

Is there a way to deal with this?

Thanks in advance,

Tom Burton

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    ptc-50184881-Visitor
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    November 6, 2014

    Hi I Tom have asked the same question few months ago without any answer!

    As workaround, I have used several versions of my creo file to build kits using same parts and to do not modify S-BOM to change kit attachment of shared parts each time I want to create a view of those kits.

    I hope PTC will think to this kind of need in Creo Illustrate feature developpement.

    Regards


    Arnaud

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    TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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    November 6, 2014

    Actually, I have found a solution; though it has a major caveat.

    I had created my s-BOM with several service Kits. These kits included various parts and assemblied.

    One of the Kits included a particular assembly, along with other assemblies and parts.

    In the Tools panel, I opened Edit Structure. In the e-BOM, I found the particular assembly noted above. Here's the caveat: the assembly in the e-BOM must have the exact same name/number, all the way down to the "dash number revision". If it does, the assembly can simply be dragged from the e-BOM to another Kit in the s-BOM. That's all there is. It works as expected in both Kits (you may need to pay attention to hiding/unhiding it in the two instances.

    Here's where the caveat really comes in: If the assembly in the e-BOM is not the exact same name/number and dash number revision, all bets are off! (I know that the higher dash number revision should have replaced the lower one in the s-BOM, but it didn't!). I couldn't get it to be visible in both kits!

    I guess it could be dealt with by deleting the lower number item from the s-BOM, and then dragging the e-BOM item to the two locations, but I haven't tried that!

    Tom

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    TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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    November 10, 2014

    Oops!

    Now I'm not sure about the "solution" above! I couldn't duplicate it today!

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