Frame Miter Cuts in BOM and Parts List

You have applied some Miter cuts, with the command Miter from the menu Design > Frame, to the Frames of your assembly inserted with Frame Generator.

Now you want to display the angle info of these end treatments in the assembly BOM and Parts List.

When you apply the Miter cuts to the Frames, Inventor creates for each frame, some custom properties named CUTDETAIL1, CUTDETAIL2, etc.

So, in order to display them in the BOM, you need to add these Custom iProperty Columns from the BOM dialog.

In case you need to display these columns in almost all your assembly BOMs, you can include them, by default, in the BOM of your assembly template.
In order to do that, you open a new assembly selecting your standard template and, after having added the two columns, you save the assembly as template with the command Save As >  Save Copy As Template.

 

In order to display the two columns in the Parts List of the assembly drawing, edit the Parts List after inserting it and add the custom property columns.

Even in this case, if this is a common workflow for you, in the Style Editor you can define a new style for the Parts List that displays the custom columns by default.

Caveat. If you delete the Miter cut of a frame associated to the custom property CUTDETAIL1 and recreate it, the name of the property will be CUTDETAIL3 and the value will not display in the corresponding cell of the CUTDETAIL1 column.

Ale

 

Comments

[Zach]

"CUTDETAIL" command shows only Mitered angles, however if angle is cut by Trim/Extend command - it does not show angle value only word "Cut". Does anyone know which command (obviously smth analogical with "CUTDETAIL") solves this problem?

[Jerry Berns]

How do you rename the iProperty CUTDETAIL3 to CUTDETAIL1?

If not renamed, this will cause problems in the Parts List.

Regards,

Jerry

[Ale]

Hi Jerry,

I suppose you are talking about the Caveat I've written at the end of this post.

Unfortunately there is no way to rename the new property, but you can create a new custom property with name CUTDETAIL1 and value =”left angled bracket symbol”CUTDETAIL3” right angled bracket symbol”.

Please replace ”left angled bracket symbol” and ”right angled bracket symbol” with the corresponding symbols.

See for instance the brackets before and after Part Number at the end of this post (http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/content-centeradms/page/2/)

Sorry if it is confused, but, unfortunately there is a problem with the comment editor and the left and right angled bracket symbols don't display.

I hope it’s clear and it helps.

Regards.

Ale