AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Make Few Assemblies In Separable For Parts List In Drawing

Mar 13, 2013

I'm trying to make a few assemblies inseparable for a parts list in a Drawing, but I can't seem to make it work.

I know I have to do this in the Bill of Materials menu, but for some reason the part I want to make inseparable is greyed out whiles the one that is just one part isn't.

My only option right now is to make it a weldment which works but not ideal, because now the material isn't correct.

I'm trying this on the 099.03.00.097 assembly in the picture.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Separate Configuration Assemblies And Parts List On Same Drawing

Mar 7, 2012

I have an assembly that is identical to another assembly with the exception of 2 or 3 components. I want to create 2 different configurations of the assembly, e.g. 12345-009 for the original assy and 12345-019 for the similar assy that has a couple of different components and/or additional components. I can create the -009 assembly and then do a "Save As" for the -019 assy and do a "Component/Replace" and add (or delete) other components.

I want both of these assemblies to be on the same drawing with a base number of 12345. I know I can do this and create a separate parts list (BOM) for each configuration and put it on the drawing. Is there a way to "merge" the two PLs so that there is a quantity column for each configuration (-009 and -019)? For example, if the same gear is used in both assemblies, I want a quantity of 1 in each column. If a component is used in one but not the other, i want only the quantity to show up in the appropriate configuration column.

 I am using Inventor 2011.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Assemblies Showing In Parts Only Parts List

Jul 10, 2012

I have an assembly with a lot of purchased parts. I need to create a buy out list for purchasing. I've done this many times in the past and have a template set up for this purpose.

So now the problem, In this assembly, I have subassemblies showing up on my parts only parts list.

One of the subassemblies cinsists of two purchased parts. Both parts are set to purchased in the Bill of materials. If I do a parts only list on this assembly, it works as expected, showing two purchased parts. However, if I put that assembly into a higher level assembly, A parts only parts list shows the assembly instead of the individual parts.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Parts List Of Sub Assemblies

May 31, 2012

I have one main assembly with two seperate sub assemblies in it.  I need to make two drawings showing the installation of both sub assemblies (one drawing for each).  I need to insert views of the main assembly into each drawing, showing the overall view of the install, but I need the balloons to represent the sub assembly BOM. 

I tried making the sub assembly I'm not currently showing, Phantom, and I have a design view set up to hide the information of the sub that is not part of the current drawing.  That seems to work fine for the first drawing, but when I change the BOM (of the main assembly) to suit the next drawing, it affects the first drawing.  How can I use one main BOM to suit two different drawings, showing only certain components?  Or can I "tell" the balloons which BOM to reference?  (I have the BOM of the sub assemblies set up the way I want them as well)

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Multiple Sub Assemblies In Parts List

Jul 25, 2013

Any way to create a parametric Parts List containing subassemblies, where the subs are listed, by name/item number, in colum format, and qty's are tabulated accross rows. (see attached as an example).  If the same part number occurs in multiple subs, the part is only listed once, but the quantity for each sub would be noted.  The pdf attached had to be done manually, which somewhat defeats the purpose of having software like Inventor.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Bolted Connections As Assemblies In Parts List

Jun 21, 2012

We'd like our bolted connections to show up as assemblies in our parts list rather than individual parts.

We've modified our CABoltCon.Imperial.xml template to make the assemblies B.O.M. structure 'Normal' rather than the default 'Phantom'.

Now we'd like to drive the assemblies description based on the bolt size used. For example, the description in the parts list would read "5/8" HEX BOLT C/W NUT AND WASHER".

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Make Parts Disappear From Assemblies - 2013

Nov 27, 2012

How is it possible to have a part in an assembly and then remove it when it is not required?

I have a Skeletal assembly of a cabinet with hinges on the left hand side when facing the front.  When a customer requires the hinges to be on the right hand side, I need to make the lock keep disappear from the Right hand side panel sub-assembly and make it appear in the Left hand panel sub-assembly.

At the moment, I have the lock keep, the BOM structure in the file is Normal, this is overidden in the assembly to being Reference for the first instance, the lock keep is fully constrained in both sub assemblies and both are in an array of only 1. I increase the value of the array from 1 to 2 and by a distance of zero(0), the newly added part would have  a BOM structure of Normal, consequently it would then appear on the BOM.  This method was something I last used when using IV2009, it was a method I used to control both visibility of parts in assembly drawings and on BOMs.

I'm now using 2013 and arraying a part with a overidden BOM structure of Reference makes the new part a reference part aswell even though the file itself is BOM structure of Normal.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Make Referenced Components From Parts And Assemblies?

Oct 4, 2012

How do I make referenced components from parts and assemblies? (I searched the web and it said that that you can change it in the iProperties by selecting the Reference tick box under the occurance tab - but no such thing exists in Inventor 2011!

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Display Density Of Materials Assigned To Various Parts In Parts List On Drawing?

Dec 9, 2013

Is there a way to display the density of materials that are assigned to varius parts in the parts list on a drawing?  I don't need the mass of the parts I just need the material density to show up next to their respective parts.

For example, if I have a part with [steel mild] material assinged to it (no matter the size) I need a column in the BOM on the drawing to show: 490.684 lbs/ft^3.  "Worry when there's something to worry about."

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Unable To Turn Off Visibility Of Parts In Assemblies On A Drawing

May 20, 2010

Since changing to Inventor I seem to be unable to turn off visibility of parts in assemblies on a drawing. Usually I just expand the view in the browser then right click on parts and turn off visibility. When I try this the visibility option is grey.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Can't Make Individual Parts Adaptive To Multiple Assemblies Without Saving Each Part

May 4, 2013

   We use a similar sub-assembly in almost every assembly we design.  So what I would like to do is make a template from this sub-assembly that I can make adaptive, constrain to the proper parts and have it resize to the main assembly.  I've been trying to do this for a few weeks now with little success.

 I have seen tutorials make adaptive part templates but never adaptive assembly templates.  Is this even possible?

 I know you can't make individual parts adaptive to multiple assemblies without saving each part as a different file and I think that's where my problems are coming from.  Even though I save the template as a different file is it still referencing the original adaptive part in my library folder?  If so, is there a way I can make it not do that?  I may be way off base there too I don’t know.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Promoting Parts In Assemblies From Stock Sub-assemblies Or Component Groups

Oct 3, 2011

I am working in an Inventor Assembly .iam, I have about 250 fasteners (screws) that are constrained to a flat washer and lock washer. I would like to put them in as a single unit (sub assembly if you will) and then promote or explode them in the top level so that my bom has 250 screws, 250 washers, and 250 lock washers all at the same level, not associated to one another except thru the constraints that were entered in the original assembly. I have tried Promote but that doesn't work because it removes the washers from the original file and I end up with only 1 instance of the assembly. Am I approaching this incorrectly? Is there a better way? I run across this scenario with different components quite often.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Drawing Sheet In Parts List

Aug 22, 2012

Any way to make the drawing "sheet number", on which a "part" or "assembly" detail appears, show up in the "parts list"/"bom"?

I need to automate that information in order to prevent errors during revisions, and for company purposes.

IV 2010 Suite
Digital Storm PC:
EVGA & Intel components
Win 7 Pro 64 bit

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Wrap Parts List And Make It Independent

Aug 21, 2013

After I wrap a parts list. Can I make them independent?

I would like to move each of them around.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Anchor Multiple Parts List Together On Drawing

Jun 21, 2011

I am creating a template for our title block.  We normally will have multiple assembly called out on one drawing.  So I created a parts list without headings and built the headings into the title block.  The first parts list I enter will anchor to my border, but when i enter the second parts list, it will not anchor to my previous parts list like I would like. 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Link To Another Drawing Sheet / Parts List

Feb 15, 2011

Let's say I have two independent drawings one with a single part and 1 with an assembly + parts list containing the single part.

So I would like to have an item note on the drawing sheet with the single part referring to the assy drawing, part number & Quantity for this item in the parts list.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Changing Properties Of Parts List On Existing Drawing

Jun 1, 2012

Is it possible to change a Parts Only parts list on a drawing into a Structured parts list? When a new parts list is created and you select the view it automatically chooses parts and greys out, preventing you from actually changing it manually. Is it possible to get around this without having to start a new drawing?

Inventor 2011

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2011 / Error With Filenames In A Drawing Parts List

Sep 15, 2011

We are using Inventor 2011. 

Inventor adds extra spaces to the parts list filenames when they wrap.

The space is added just before the break.

We access the parts list in several VBA programs.  Mainly to get the line Item number.

With the Filename corrupted with random space characters I cannot tie the document to the item number in code.

Is there a way to get the true fully pathed document name from a parts list Line item instead of the flakey filename that is displayed?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Proper Way To Add Substitute Items In Parts List On Drawing?

Jan 31, 2012

I have some hardware in my parts list drawings that has a substitute for each other.  So you can use one of either item in the list.  Per the ASME guidelines, those two parts share the same item number in the parts list.  So my question is there any way to tell those two parts they are substitute from each other and they come into the parts list sharing that same item number.  Right now i'm manually changing that item number in the parts list. But if you try to re-order those parts it's a nightmare cause it's still treating that other item as a seperate entity.  

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Make Macro That Adds Vendor Column To End Of A Parts List

Sep 10, 2008

I am trying to make a macro that adds the vendor column to the end of a parts list, sort by it first, then by part number, renumber the parts list, then save the overrides to the BOM. Everything works great except for saving the overrides to the BOM. The item number sort order gets jumbled back up. I am using Inventor 2008 Pro SP2. Below is the

Public Sub SortPartsList()
Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim oPartsList As PartsList
Set oPartsList = oDoc.ActiveSheet.PartsLists.Item(1)
Dim oPropsets As PropertySets

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Printing Drawing Sheet Sets From Assembly BOM Parts List

Nov 27, 2012

I have created an assembly that has a parts list, and in this parts list I have up to 100 mono detail drawings. I would like to know if there is a way to print all of these drawing from that list in a massive plot.

At my previous company we had something like this in AutoCAD where a script was created to look at the drawings and print all drawings mentioned in the assembly BOM and subsequent sub-assemblies, it worked beautifully.

I find that I have to print all drawings to paper or PDF individually.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Automated Extraction Of Parts List From PDF To Compile Complete Drawing Package

Mar 7, 2012

pdf drawings are king at our company.  When we creat a product, pdfs (and sometimes stp files) are generated and placed in folders organized numerically by part number.

Our challenge is that finding all the current pdfs for an assembly is not automated.  Thus, to get all the current drawing pdfs, someone has to open up the top level pdf, read all the part numbers, go get/print the pdfs of the parts, subassemblies, subassembly parts,  etc.  This is time consuming and error prone and getting worse as the number of parts we always increasing.

I'd like to automate the process.  I'm thinking about a program/script that: Extract parts list from pdf of Inventor assembly drawingCopy pdf of individual parts/subassemblies to a directoryMerge all pdf for that assembly into single pdf.

INV 2013

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Get Parts List In Assembly Drawing To Fill Part Number Column?

Nov 19, 2011

I'm using Autodesk Inventor 2012 SP1 64 Bit on a Windows 7 machine without vault.

I seem to be missing something. I cannot get the parts list in assembly drawing to fill the part number column. See the image below.

The BOM has the part number field filled out as shown below. Is there someway that I need to map the iProperty to the part number column in parts list?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Using Model Dimensions To Fill LENGTH / WIDTH Fields In Drawing Parts List

Mar 1, 2013

In our “Parts list” (or BOM as we call it) on our .idw’s we have field for “LENGTH”. For example, we use round tubing. We would list the cut length of that piece of tube in the “LENGTH” column. As it stands now, we add “LENGTH” as a custom iproperty in the .ipt. Then in the drawing we add that property to the parts list to capture the length. This works fine, but I’m wondering if we can eliminate some steps by capturing the actual dimension from the sketch to automatically populate the “LENGTH” value. Needless to say, this would eliminate room for error (less typing) and will update the value automatically if length is changed or if the part is copied. I suppose the same would apply for “WIDTH” on sheet metal parts... How do I do this?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Make Some Parts Shaded In Drawing

Mar 20, 2013

I am now making drawings of complexed structures and would like to draw attention to some elements that are important for particular drawing.

What I would like best would be to be able to schade selected parts. But did not find a way to do that.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Showing Two Instances Of Parts List And Adding Custom Parts

Mar 30, 2012

On the main sheet of my drawing I have the overall Parts List.  Shows almost all parts except for the few that we don't want to list.  On the second sheet I inserted a Parts List to show only parts that are shown in a detail on that page, made the rest non-visible.

On the main sheet there is an item (#13) that has a QTY of 3.  Two of those Three are optional parts.  What I'm trying to do is insert a custom part into the Parts List, give it an item number of 13A and put in the description "OPTIONAL", then do an Override in the balloon to show 13A.

I get it in the Parts List, Apply it, close it, save the drawing.  Looking at the Parts List, item #13A is there, but item #14 is gone.  I go back into the Parts List and 13A is there and there's a blue box around the item # and the description.  I uncheck Static Value and number 14 shows up (item # and the description).

Then I go over to sheet two, open that Parts List and it lists 13A at the bottom with all the info I added in sheet one and it's non-visible.  Go back to sheet one, open the Parts List and there is no 13A to be found.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Parts List Update When Modifying Model Parts In Idw

Aug 21, 2012

My parts list on my idw do not update when I make changes to the model. Specifically, I have deleted a bolted connection on my design and replaced with a different components but the parts list table does not update - all I see is a lightning bolt in the browser next to the parts list but I cannot update it here.

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
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AutoCAD Inventor :: Virtual Parts Weight Total BOM And Parts List

Aug 7, 2013

I was using virtual parts to add nuts and bolts to a drawing in 2013

I can make a VP bolt in the assembly, no problem, set it's size, weight, etc.

In the VP itself, there is no option for number of bolts I want it to emulate. For arguement's sake the weight was 1 pound per bolt (they are big bolts).

I can go into the BOM and say quantity 60, hit done and save the assembly.

If i open the drawing, the parts lists shows 60lbs for the 60 bolts total - which it should when summing the weight.

The problem is the BOM/assembly. If the weight of my assembly (without bolts) is 10,000lbs, the assembly sees the VP weighing 1lb and says the total weight is 10,001 lbs. Am i going to have to pattern a fake part to get this to work right? Shouldn't the total weight take into account the quantity set in the Bom??

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Highlighting Parts In Sub-Assemblies

Oct 16, 2012

I'm having a problem highlighting parts within a sub assembly.  A simple structure to demonstarte this issue would be:

TopLevel.iam
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SubAssy.iam
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ChildPart1.ipt
ChildPart2.ipt

Using this structure I wish to highligh ChildPart1.ipt, howver my vba macro code below doesn't seem to work (nothing happens):

Public Sub Highlight()
Dim SubAssy As Inventor.AssemblyDocument
Dim ChildPart1 As Inventor.ComponentOccurrence

[Code].....

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Link Parts (IPT) And Assemblies (IAM) To Each Other

Apr 3, 2009

how the file structure works and how to link parts (ipt) and assemblies (iam) to each other. I converted a large file from Mechanical desktop to inventor which was a two day process. All parts and assemblies for the main assembly were dumped into one directory. I would like to move all the part files to one location and the assembly files (sub assemblies) to another location and then tell inventor to go there and pick the items from those two locations. I have set up the project telling inventor where to go and look. I moved all the items out of the original directory and now when I open the main model assembly I have to resolve the link to each part individually. This will take forever, is there a way to have inventor go and look for the parts and assemblies without me having to resolve each one?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Drag Parts Into New Assemblies

Oct 21, 2013

I just installed Inventor 2014 today and I can't drag a part from the browser of one assembly into another open assembly.

It changes the cursor when I do it, but it never actually drops the model into the new assembly. 

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