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Including a bill of materials

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Including a bill of materials

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- [Instructor] Once we have an assembly drawing, the next logical step is to bring in a bill of materials. To do that, I'm going to go ahead and choose this view right over here, and then come down here to insert, tables, bill materials. Now we have a bunch of options here as far as how we want to bring that table in. It's top level only or parts only, or we can do indented. I'm going to choose a top only one for this one. If you had different configurations here, you could choose which configurations to bring in, and it would then tell you which parts were in which configuration. But in this case, we only have the one configuration. You can define how you want to group together those parts. You can keep missing rows and items. You get a bunch of options here. We can even change the increment and what we start at for the numbering. You can also change the layer that the table is on, but for right now, let's just go ahead…

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