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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by sburke</title>
		<link>http://solidworks.burkesys.com/2009/04/create-a-custom-excel-bom/comment-page-1/#comment-705</link>
		<dc:creator>sburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Jiten,

You can indeed insert the grand total row, however it requires a manual step. Once you insert the Excel BOM and its on the drawing, you need to right-click on the BOM and go &quot;Edit&quot;. You then need to add in a row manually, and insert the cell =sum(B2:B10).

There are some caveats:
If you add a second part, the total quantity won&#039;t fully update until you go Edit on the BOM and open the embedded Excel Window.
If you add a new part, the row you added will stay, and the new part will be listed in a new row below.
With a little workarounds could be gotten. I.E. add a row at the very top, and show the Total Quantity there.

Also, there is an excellent SolidWorks Screencast on using Microsoft Excel: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/DemoLibrary/tipsforengineers.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Jiten,</p>
<p>You can indeed insert the grand total row, however it requires a manual step. Once you insert the Excel BOM and its on the drawing, you need to right-click on the BOM and go &#8220;Edit&#8221;. You then need to add in a row manually, and insert the cell =sum(B2:B10).</p>
<p>There are some caveats:<br />
If you add a second part, the total quantity won&#8217;t fully update until you go Edit on the BOM and open the embedded Excel Window.<br />
If you add a new part, the row you added will stay, and the new part will be listed in a new row below.<br />
With a little workarounds could be gotten. I.E. add a row at the very top, and show the Total Quantity there.</p>
<p>Also, there is an excellent SolidWorks Screencast on using Microsoft Excel: <a href="http://www.solidworks.com/sw/DemoLibrary/tipsforengineers.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.solidworks.com/sw/DemoLibrary/tipsforengineers.htm</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by jiten Sompura</title>
		<link>http://solidworks.burkesys.com/2009/04/create-a-custom-excel-bom/comment-page-1/#comment-600</link>
		<dc:creator>jiten Sompura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you sburke for the nice info.
One question is can i insert the grand total row also from excel.
Regards,
Jiten</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you sburke for the nice info.<br />
One question is can i insert the grand total row also from excel.<br />
Regards,<br />
Jiten</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by sburke</title>
		<link>http://solidworks.burkesys.com/2009/04/create-a-custom-excel-bom/comment-page-1/#comment-588</link>
		<dc:creator>sburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Biren,

Typically you have to insert a &quot;Weldment Cut List&quot; to get the &quot;cut length&quot; to appear in a BOM. If you don&#039;t have a weldment part, you won&#039;t see the option for a Weldment Cut List in a Drawing.

In SolidWorks 2008, a extra option appeared when creating a SolidWorks based Bill of Materials. This extra option was &quot;Detailed Cut List&quot;.
If you want your Weldments and Cut Lengths to appear in a BOM, then you must:
A. Have SolidWorks 2008 or later.
B. Have used a Weldment feature in at least one part (and see the Cut-List in the part design tree, and right-click and go &quot;update&quot;)
C. In the Drawing -&gt; Insert -&gt; Tables -&gt; Bill of Materials, choose &quot;Indented&quot; and select the tick box &quot;Detailed Cut List&quot;.
D. If you do not see a &quot;Length&quot; column, hover the mouse over the BOM, right-click on the &quot;A&quot; column header, and go Insert -&gt; Column Right. In the drop-down choose Custom Property, and in the second drop-down choose &quot;Length&quot;.

Hope this helps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Biren,</p>
<p>Typically you have to insert a &#8220;Weldment Cut List&#8221; to get the &#8220;cut length&#8221; to appear in a BOM. If you don&#8217;t have a weldment part, you won&#8217;t see the option for a Weldment Cut List in a Drawing.</p>
<p>In SolidWorks 2008, a extra option appeared when creating a SolidWorks based Bill of Materials. This extra option was &#8220;Detailed Cut List&#8221;.<br />
If you want your Weldments and Cut Lengths to appear in a BOM, then you must:<br />
A. Have SolidWorks 2008 or later.<br />
B. Have used a Weldment feature in at least one part (and see the Cut-List in the part design tree, and right-click and go &#8220;update&#8221;)<br />
C. In the Drawing -> Insert -> Tables -> Bill of Materials, choose &#8220;Indented&#8221; and select the tick box &#8220;Detailed Cut List&#8221;.<br />
D. If you do not see a &#8220;Length&#8221; column, hover the mouse over the BOM, right-click on the &#8220;A&#8221; column header, and go Insert -> Column Right. In the drop-down choose Custom Property, and in the second drop-down choose &#8220;Length&#8221;.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by biren</title>
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		<dc:creator>biren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not getting cut length in my bom.
I am using default solidworks templates.

What should be problem???

you can get me on birendm gmail.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not getting cut length in my bom.<br />
I am using default solidworks templates.</p>
<p>What should be problem???</p>
<p>you can get me on birendm gmail.com</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by sburke</title>
		<link>http://solidworks.burkesys.com/2009/04/create-a-custom-excel-bom/comment-page-1/#comment-397</link>
		<dc:creator>sburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good question &lt;a href=&quot;#comment-395&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donno&lt;/a&gt;. From testing it there in SolidWorks, the Standard BOM does show an extra column for Quantity in multiple configurations.

Although I could be wrong, from testing this in SW, and looking at the SolidWorks Knowledge Base, reading &quot;Solution Id: S-026416&quot;, it appears that its not possible to have an Excel BOM show multiple QTY / Quantity columns for multiple configurations. If the configuration of the Assembly, in which the Excel BOM is based on, is changed, then the BOM&#039;s single QTY column will reflect the current active configuration showing.

You could insert 2 Excel BOMs (in SW2009), 1 Excel BOM for each configuration, and go that route.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good question <a href="#comment-395" rel="nofollow">Donno</a>. From testing it there in SolidWorks, the Standard BOM does show an extra column for Quantity in multiple configurations.</p>
<p>Although I could be wrong, from testing this in SW, and looking at the SolidWorks Knowledge Base, reading &#8220;Solution Id: S-026416&#8243;, it appears that its not possible to have an Excel BOM show multiple QTY / Quantity columns for multiple configurations. If the configuration of the Assembly, in which the Excel BOM is based on, is changed, then the BOM&#8217;s single QTY column will reflect the current active configuration showing.</p>
<p>You could insert 2 Excel BOMs (in SW2009), 1 Excel BOM for each configuration, and go that route.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by donno</title>
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		<dc:creator>donno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nice job.
Question: can multiple QTY columns be used in an Excel-based BOM, like in a SW BOM. eg: you have 4 configurations of an assy, and you want your BOM to have 4 QTY columns, one for each config ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nice job.<br />
Question: can multiple QTY columns be used in an Excel-based BOM, like in a SW BOM. eg: you have 4 configurations of an assy, and you want your BOM to have 4 QTY columns, one for each config ?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by sburke</title>
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		<dc:creator>sburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to hear you got it working Sean. I&#039;m glad I provided the Excel download, which was actually an after-thought.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to hear you got it working Sean. I&#8217;m glad I provided the Excel download, which was actually an after-thought.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Create a Custom Excel BOM by Sean MacNeil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sean MacNeil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for the article, the download was helpful.  Was having trouble loading the supplied excel bom from Solidworks, it kept erroring out and not populating.  Which in turn the operation would then cease and not produce a bom, not even a blank sheet.  Root cause the cell names were not entered for the column names.  By using your spread sheet I was able to reolve this issue.  There is the possiblility piping cost maybe in our design future as well.  Vista 64 SW09.  Again many thanks!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for the article, the download was helpful.  Was having trouble loading the supplied excel bom from Solidworks, it kept erroring out and not populating.  Which in turn the operation would then cease and not produce a bom, not even a blank sheet.  Root cause the cell names were not entered for the column names.  By using your spread sheet I was able to reolve this issue.  There is the possiblility piping cost maybe in our design future as well.  Vista 64 SW09.  Again many thanks!!</p>
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