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Automated method

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- [Instructor] In many cases we may have a large number of items in our product and thus creating a bill of materials manually might not be the most efficient method. Luckily Composer also gives us a more automated solution for generating perhaps larger BOMs as well. So, to generate our more automated bill of materials, I want to jump into my Workshops tab and within my Publishing section I have a BOM option, so just clicking on the BOM Workshop, my BOM Workshop panel will automatically pop up on my right-hand side and here I have a whole number of options and settings once again that I can run through. So, first of all, let's take a look at applies to. So, I have a few options in my dropdown to apply my bill of materials to. For example, if I want to generate a bill of materials for all of the visible geometry or my entire product that's visible in this specific view, I have that option, I have all geometry or all parts, so that's just going to grab everything within my full project…

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