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nlewis1-Visitor
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November 20, 2018
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Is there a way to print the sBOM in Creo Illustrate?

  • November 20, 2018
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Is there a way to print the sBOM in Creo Illustrate?

 

And is there a way to compare to sBOM's in Creo Illustrate - two different models?

 

Thank you.

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agarland16-Pearl
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November 20, 2018

There isn't anyway to print the sBOM directly from illustrate but you can export the sBOM as an xml file from structure edit mode (Home ribbon) and then open/print the xml file.

 

No way to compare two sBOM's either, is there a specific reason for wanting to do a compare between sBOM's rather than comparing the source data structures?

Creo View 5.1 will have the ability to compare assembly structures.

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nlewis1-VisitorAuthor
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November 20, 2018

This question is in reference to the other question that I posted.

 

Since I cannot get the model to maintain state, I had hoped to compare the sBOM of the model before I added the assembly, to the one after I added the assembly.

 

That way I could compare the two and turn off the parts in the modified version that need to be turned off.

 

That will be a significant amount of work, several hundreds or thousands of parts. But at the present it seems like the only way to do it.

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nlewis1-VisitorAuthor
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November 21, 2018

Our manuals normally present a generic common machine. Those parts remain checked. All other parts get unchecked.

 

If Engineering creates a new option, they make a .pvz file to add to the hierarchy of the original model.

 

We were using Creo Illustrate version 3. We now use version 4.

 

I opened the main model and began to import the new .pvz file by link.

 

A dialogue box came up that asked if I wanted to always update or update after confirmation. I chose update after confirmation only.

 

The next box to come up had the title of "New Figure". In the 3D box were four items. The top three items, as I looked at them were not the model that I currently had open. They seemed to be previous models of the machine.

 

At the lower right of the box are: Create, with a drop down menu, and Close.

 

Regardless of which option I select (create or close), the additional information is brought in and used.

 

What determines the import selection? How can I get it to just import the new option (the new .pvz file).

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

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