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Editing a bill of materials

Editing a bill of materials - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Editing a bill of materials

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- [Instructor] Sometimes when you create a bill of materials inside your drawing, it doesn't include all of the information or all the items that you actually want someone to use. So for example, in this assembly that I have on the screen maybe I want someone to put some grease in various locations. That's technically an item that they need to create this part. It's pretty easy to edit this. It works just like any other tables that you're used to using in a Microsoft format. So I'm just going to click over here. I'm going to right click on this left side and you can see if I go to insert, I can insert columns or I can insert rows. So I'm going to insert a row below and I'm at the last row already. And now I can double click on here and it's going to ask me anytime you edit a cell, are you sure? Because these cells are linked to custom properties in the background. You can say, don't show again if you want, but I…

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