Thank you for producing all these videos, they are great and much appreciated. I'm starting to teach my son drafting and these are a great tool to use. I've been using Alibre (Expert) for a long time, both home and work. I have a question/comment about the BOM. For the chair example (but this applies to any assembly), we are only allowed one BOM per drawing file. Why? Let’s say we are manufacturing this chair. It is the first page in the drawing file, representing the total assembled chair. The second drawing is the chair seat subassembly, the third is the base subassembly, and the fourth is the wheel subassembly. Without having multiple drawing files to open/close and manage we are only allowed one BOM in this file. I want a BOM on the total assembly, a BOM on the seat drawing, a BOM for the base and a BOM for the wheel without having to manage multiple drawing files. Additionally, I’d prefer not to have to reference one BOM from another page to identify parts in my subassembly drawings. How can this be done without using tables? My main application is structural steel. Typically all our jobs are detailed by our detailers in Tekla. Tekla handles this perfect with a BOM on each drawing listing all the parts needed. However, with the odd small job I will do it in Alibre but can't make the drawings look like our regular shop drawings. If I had a small structure to build (4) columns and (4) beams, we would produce (8) separate main shop drawings C100-C103 & B100-B103. I need to list all the parts applicable to that assembly on their respective drawing but am unable to. Any suggestions on how to achieve this in Alibre?
Great way to explain BOMs
Thank you for producing all these videos, they are great and much appreciated. I'm starting to teach my son drafting and these are a great tool to use. I've been using Alibre (Expert) for a long time, both home and work. I have a question/comment about the BOM. For the chair example (but this applies to any assembly), we are only allowed one BOM per drawing file. Why? Let’s say we are manufacturing this chair. It is the first page in the drawing file, representing the total assembled chair. The second drawing is the chair seat subassembly, the third is the base subassembly, and the fourth is the wheel subassembly. Without having multiple drawing files to open/close and manage we are only allowed one BOM in this file. I want a BOM on the total assembly, a BOM on the seat drawing, a BOM for the base and a BOM for the wheel without having to manage multiple drawing files. Additionally, I’d prefer not to have to reference one BOM from another page to identify parts in my subassembly drawings. How can this be done without using tables? My main application is structural steel. Typically all our jobs are detailed by our detailers in Tekla. Tekla handles this perfect with a BOM on each drawing listing all the parts needed. However, with the odd small job I will do it in Alibre but can't make the drawings look like our regular shop drawings. If I had a small structure to build (4) columns and (4) beams, we would produce (8) separate main shop drawings C100-C103 & B100-B103. I need to list all the parts applicable to that assembly on their respective drawing but am unable to. Any suggestions on how to achieve this in Alibre?
Superb Joseph. I think I prefer that to Inventor. I'll have a practice later. Thank you. JimCad