Prod can create a BOM with one click. In SolidWorks, when creating a BOM table, all BOM fields, except for “quantity”, are derived from the file attributes of sub-parts or sub-assemblies.
In SWTDO, the command for creating a BOM is called the Prod system
In the settings of the Prod system, there are two aspects regarding the BOM field:
- First, it is extraction. Prod specifies a collection of extraction field names, which can be 10 attributes, 20 attributes, or any number of attributes.Here is a definition: these 10 or 20 attributes are called “Basic Property Set”
- Secondly, preset assignment allows for setting the predetermined initial value of a field, such as “sw-mass”, which is the built-in mass formula in SolidWorks. However, it is important to note that assigning properties to parts is not done by Prod, but rather by property formatting. In other words:
The setting of Prod is the parent command for property formatting
Prod can create a BOM with one click because of property formatting, which allows for one-time assignment of all sub-components, including sub-assemblies and sub-parts, under the assembly. Such as SW-mass, sw-Material, or density, or designer’s name, company name, material code, and so on.
Since different enterprises’ SolidWorks designers have different requirements for property columns (that is, the columns of the BOM table are different), and because the basic property cluster can be arbitrarily preset, SWTDO’s Prod system can handle BOM tables for any enterprise with any requirements. As long as presets have been made, it can be assigned with one click and extracted with one click.