Why use Bulk items and not a parameter.

[vmcdaniel]

I'm investigating bulk items. We want to have the drawing BOM show 1.5. I can do this with bulk items. But I can also do this with a parameter in a solid model and repeat region relations. So what is the advantage of doing it with a bulk item? I think the only added functionality of a bulk item is the area/length/distance parameter calculations, which I do not have any interest in, is that the only advantage bulk items offer?

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[vmcdaniel]

I suppose one Bulit item advantage is the assembly component level variation on the parameters.

[vmcdaniel]

Windchill Peps, does Windchill handle this correctly?

Bulk items have one huge disadvantage if you’re still on Intralink 3.4 or earlier – they don’t report the correct quantity in the intralink BOM (fine in the drawing, shows up as “1” in the Intralink BOM). I have no experience with PTC’s newer PDM solutions, so I don’t know if they fixed it or not . --

Lyle Beidler