From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer
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Manual method - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer
Manual method
- [Instructor] Now, let's take a look at generating some bill of materials within Composer. Whenever working with bill of materials, the first thing I like to do is jump into the window tab, and turn on my BOM tree. Then you'll notice I get a new tab here called BOM, and you'll see as we build our bill of materials, this will start to fill up with our bill of material items. This is just useful as I can keep track of my bill of materials while I'm generating it. So now, let's take a look at the manual method of generating bill of materials. There's a few different methods we'll take a look at, but perhaps the simplest would just be the manual method. So to generate my bill of materials in a purely manual method, I can just grab whatever items I'd like to add to the bill of materials. Let's say, click on my propellor here to start, and then if I navigate over to my properties panel, I actually have a property called BOM ID. So by default the BOM ID for all of my items will just be…
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