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Assembly: remove some parts from BOM

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EddyVE

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Hi all,

I have an assembly and I want to (temporarily) prevent that some parts and subassemblies appear in the main assemblys BOM (Bill of Material).
The only way I know is to suppress the parts. But then, those parts children are also suppressed and this is not always what I want.
Hiding parts does not make them disappear from the BOM .
Does anybody know of a way to achieve this?

Kind regards
Eddy
 
I am only familiar with this in Pro/E R20, but can't you just go into repeat regions and filter by rule, and then when you want them to reappear just do an edit and delete them from the filter relations? I might be wrong but that is how I would do it. There is probably an easier way in Wildfire.

Edited by: design3d
 
If this is only temporarily you need to remove it from BOM then the best way is to create simplified representation in which you can exclude components you don't want in BOM and from that simp rep create drawing.


In other ways you can filter this components from BOM in repeat region of drawing.
 
Go into TABLES>REPEAT REGION>FILTER and select the objects you want to filter out of the BOM. DO the reverse to show them.
 
Hi all,

Maybe I should have explained a little more.
I use 'Info / Bill of Material' to let Pro/E (WildFire) create a BOM file.
I use this BOM file with Spekans sBatch utility to print out a lot of drawings at the same time.

I now have a large assembly of which I have to print only a part of the drawings. This assembly is a machine and I want to print out one series of parts to have them produced at toolshop A and I want to print out the rest to have these parts produced at toolshop B.
So I would like to produce a BOM file for toolshop A and another for toolshop B.
The problem is that for a certain assembly some parts are for toolshop A and some are for toolshop B. So I can not simply suppress the entire assembly...

Kind regards
 
If you embed a parameter into the models that defines their
manufacturing origin Filtering by rule based on this parameter will do
the job PERFECTLY.



If you want to do this as an afterthought, doing it in the model tree
is about 100 times quicker than opening the files one at a time to
create the required parameter.



DB
 
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