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Accessing custom properties in BOM

Accessing custom properties in BOM - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Accessing custom properties in BOM

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- [Tutor] In this video I'm going to be showing you how to add columns to a building material as well as access custom properties. Now you can see here we already have item number, we have part number, we have description, and we have quantity. Now if you were to double-click on each one of those columns, you'd see is choosing a part number and if you wanted to change that for instance over here to a custom property, you could easily choose that and then choose which custom property you want. Now I'm going to go ahead and choose part numbers. There are two different part numbers. I want to use the part number that's in the custom property, and as I do that it does change the part number. Same thing over here - description - that's probably pretty good. It's already linked to a custom property name description. If you wanted to change it to something else, you could easily do that as well but we want to verify that we are accessing that custom property. Now down here - quantity - that…

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