From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
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Creating bill of materials - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
Creating bill of materials
- [Instructor] So, to insert my bill of materials, again should be a fairly simple process. I can just navigate to my Annotation tab within my engineering drawing here. And over on the right hand side I have various tables I can insert. If I hit that drop down, I have a few different tables I can choose from. What we're looking for in this case for assembly is just bill of materials. Choose bill of materials. Select whichever view I would like to generate a bill of materials for, so that's going to be my main assembly view here. And now I have a number of different standards and settings that I can choose from or alter to fit my specific needs. In this case I'm just going to keep the original settings the default settings as is here, but you can customize and change these settings however you'd like and you can also of course save out your customized bill of materials as well. And once I'm happy with all of these options I can just hit the green check. That should bring in my bill of…
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