Change the Base Quantity for Structural Shape frames inserted with Frame Generator

You have inserted some Structural Shape frames with Frame Generator and in the assembly BOM the quantity of these frames is set equal to the length.

This is because the Base Quantity of the frames is set to the "G_L" parameter.

So, if you want to have the Base Quantity set to "Each", but, without editing each frame within the assembly for changing this, you can do the following.

• In the Bill of Material dialog click on Choose Columns.
• From the following Customization dialog, drag the column Base QTY in the BOM.

• In the first frame row, double-click in the cell of the Base QTY column.
• Click on the arrow that appears at the right of the cell.
• In the following dialog, select the “Each” under the Standard Quantity Property.

• Select the lower-right corner of the cell and drag it down to the last frame cell, applying the same setting to the other cell.

By the way, if you don’t want to apply this procedure and it is enough to display the quantity you like in the Parts List, as alternative, you can just replace “QTY” column with “ITEM QTY” one there.

And, if you want, change the column Heading.

Ale

Comments

[Norbert Saremba]

Nice, but this is no solution.
In the past there were templates for content center files. We could configure it by using one created part of a family, changed the bom to each and saved it as template file by overwriting existing.
Now the Inventor Content Center files have nomore templates. . .
pur Inventor

[Ale]

Hi Norbert,

This is not 100% true.

You can still do that (see for instance the procedure in the post http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/11/edit-the-structural-shape-quantity-precision-in-balloons.html for a similar request).

By the way, the settings for the Base Quantity from the edited template, just get applied to the frames inserted with the command Place from the Content Center and not with Frame Generator.

Besides, for doing that, you need to copy all the Steel Shape Families in a Read / Write Library and edit the template of each family.

Instead with this solution, you can use the frames from the standard libraries without editing their templates.

If you want, you can also add the Base Quantity column by default in your assembly template.

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Ale