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To resolve it, open the assembly and go to configurations, right click on the active configuration and press “Properties.”įind “Bill of Materials Options”, and the section “Child component display when used as subassembly.” In most cases this is due to a setting in the configuration in the affected subassembly. When working with subassemblies on BOMs you can sometimes experience one the following issues.ġ) Your parts does not appear on the BOM, only the subassembly.Ģ) Or the subassembly it self does not appear on the BOM. You only need to make sure that “Follow assembly order” is checked, and your BOM should match up nicely.

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This way the BOM will always update and if a new configuration is inserted, it is automatically sorted in the right order. Under balloons, set a checkmark on “Link Balloon text to specified table” and select the table you want to link to. Right click on the view and press “Properties” I will not go over option 1, but instead focus on option 2. Make sure the existing view refers to the correct BOM.However, if you delete one of the BOMs your Balloon on the referring to view with the deleted Table does not match the remaining BOM.

Sometimes it can be useful to have multiple views and BOM in a drawing due to different configurations. In this blog post the focus will be on BOM and Balloons, as that can also prove to be quite a handful on occasions.Īll of the solutions offered here can be done by most users BOM reference So in this and some of my other blog posts, I will be giving some examples of questions I receive when working in support, as well as offer solutions for them.

When working with SOLIDWORKS support, I receive questions multiple times, and most of the time the answer is the same.