Creating a standard BOM

Now that we have inserted the assembly file into the drawing sheet, we can generate a standard BOM for the assembly. To generate that, we can follow these steps:

  1. From the Annotation tab, select the Tables drop-down menu and select the Bill of Materials, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Then, select the view for the model that you want to create the BOM for. Since both the drawing views are the same, we can click on either of them.

  1. This will show the Bill of Materials PropertyManager toward the left of the screen. As we are creating a standard default bill, we can simply leave all of the default options ...

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