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BOM missing items

- [Instructor] In some circumstances, you might have a bill of materials and you might be missing an item. Or you have multiple items in your bill of materials that you just don't want to show up. So in that case, we have the ability to either exclude an item for a bill of materials or to add it in if it's not there. So let me show you how that's happening. So over here you can see I've got some little balloons over here designating the different items. And notice this one with the star is excluded from the bill of materials. Now if you didn't really want it there you probably want to add a balloon anyways, but if you want to add that back into the bill of materials, you can do that a couple different ways. So one is choosing the item itself, and you can go ahead and open up that assembly. So click on this thing here and open up that assembly. Alright, and then over here you can figure out which component that is, right, pretty easy, by clicking on the item there, and come up here to…

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