The goal of this exercise is to show the steps required to insert in the drawing of a piping assembly a cutting BOM.
The sample cutting BOM that comes with the think3 application requires two fields to be added to the engineering bill of materials: RELVAL1 and RELVAL2 both of type Real.
Prerequisite to this exercise is a correctly configured thinkPLM installation. See Adding fields attributes for the Cutting BOM for more information.
| A file named CuttingBOM.e3 is provided for your convenience among the other sample models. |
| 1 | Let's start with the creation of a simple assembly of pipes. Start the think3 application and open a New Model |
| 2 | Add as an X-Reference component an instance of the pipe that you find in the CuttingBOM.e3 model file. The position of the pipe is not relevant. |
| 3 | Because we want to use the same pipe with different lengths, Unlink the component. |
| 4 | Copy the component three times (you will have a total of four objects), and unlink the last copy you made. |
| 5 | Set Current the component you just created, access the Spreadsheet and set the RELVAL1 (Length) value to 45. Reset the current component and rebuild. |
| 6 | Make a copy of the smaller pipe. Your assembly should be composed of three 90mm long pipes and two 45mm long ones. |
| 7 | Let's now create the Drawing from Current Model, which we will complete with the cutting BOM. |
| 8 | It is not relevant, for the sake of this task, whether you load the format and the drawing and block. Complete the creation of the drawing as you wish. |
| 9 | Start the Part List command and set as template for your part list the one named PartNum,Description - V1xV2,IT,Unit,Qty. This is a sample template designed to show the cutting BOM behavior. |
| 10 | Click OK and position the cutting BOM on the drawing. |
| 11 | Note that the BOM contains two lines, each with the count (Qty) of one of the two pipe dimensions used. Play with the model, creating other copies of the sample pipe with different lengths and eventually different diameters (RELVAL2), to see how the cutting BOM behaves when you Regenerate the Drawing table. |