Transferring drawing positions to the Woodwork for Inventor BOM

 

Autodesk Inventor has a functionality that displays the positions of components in an Assembly drawing. This position numbering is closely related to the Autodesk Inventor BOM view.

Autodesk Inventor supports the following BOM views, which have their own numbering schemes:

1.Structured First Level BOM View – numbers the first level components in the assembly.

2.Structured All Level BOM View – numbers components (assemblies and parts) across all levels of the assembly.

3.Parts Only BOM View – only components of the Part type are selected and numbered at all levels.

 

The Woodwork for Inventor BOM generator may include this numbering in its BOM. This synchronises the positions of the components in the drawing.

The following keywords can be used to achieve this:

▪Item.StructureBOMPositionNumber – outputs the component position number, which is taken from Autodesk Inventor – Structured First Level BOM View.

▪Item.StructureBOMAllLevelPositionNumber – outputs the position number of the component, which is taken from Autodesk Inventor – Structured First Level BOM View.

▪Item.PartsBOMPositionNumber – outputs the position number of the component, which is taken from the Parts Only BOM View.

 

 

Important!

Woodwork for Inventor keywords can only retrieve position values from specified BOM views if Autodesk Inventor has been requested to provide those BOM images (Enabled).  This can be done in the Autodesk Inventor BOM generator or on the drawing by performing positioning and placing a BOM table on the drawing sheet. Otherwise, these keywords return empty values.