KOMPAS-3D v24

The BOM description is required for displaying the BOM data in the document on the screen. A BOM description includes:

•the style of BOM (and the path to the library of styles containing this style),

•setting the display of mass values: measurement unit and precision.

The BOM description is stored in the document. One document can have several descriptions. One of them is the current description. In accordance with the current description the following will be displayed:

•row of the BOM form when creating a BOM item and an external BOM item in a document,

•BOM form in subordinate mode,

•Constituent parts of the product on Product BOM panel The BOM style defines the set of sections and the sorting of the components.

Operations with BOM descriptions contained in the document are performed in the dialog, invoked by the Management — BOM — Descriptions of BOMs command. Here you can create a description, edit it, make it current or delete it.

It is also possible to automatically create a BOM description in a document. This occurs in the following cases:

•Creation of the first BOM item in the document.

•Starting the subordinate mode of working with BOM.

In both cases, the description that appears in the document contains the BOM style specified in the template of specification, used in general case. The indication of the path to the template file is made in the In general row of the Document templates dialog. To obtain a BOM template, you need to create a BOM in the usual manner, select the required style for it, if necessary, make other settings and save the document as a BOM template (*.spt).

Setting for the display of mass values in the automatically created BOM description corresponds to the analogous setting in the BOM template.

Additionally, a BOM description can be created in a document after calling the command Select BOM style from the Product composition panel. This command specifies the bill of materials style used to display component parts in the BOM panel. If a BOM description containing the selected style does not exist in the document, one is created.