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Customizing BOM

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Customizing BOM

- [Instructor] In many cases, I may want to add additional information or customize my bill of materials. So let's say I want to add an additional column to my bill of material table. I can do that by jumping into my BOM panel here, and within my BOM panel I have a configure bill of materials columns button, and if I just click that, the configure columns window will automatically pop up, and here we can see all of the available properties I have available to choose from. So I can just scroll down this list, grab whatever property I'd like to throw into this table, and move it over to my displayed properties. Now it's important to notice here that my available properties of just my standard properties dropdown here, that's all the properties within Composer. But if I hit that dropdown, I have a few other options as well. What I can do is actually I can use meta-properties, and this is very useful, because these actually pull the properties directly from SOLIDWORKS. So if our…

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