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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 a drawing of the assembly, the next logical step is to add in a Bill of Materials. Now, to do that, let's go ahead and click on one of these views here. I generally choose the isometric view and then come up here to Insert, Tables, Bill of Materials. Okay, now, once we have the Bill of Materials dialog box opened up over here, we have a few different options. The first one is the BOM Type and right now we have the Top-level only selected. What that means is it's only going to show the individual parts that are in the top level as well as the sub-assemblies. It's not going to call out the individual parts that are in the sub-assemblies. Now, if you go to a Parts Only Build of Materials, it's going to basically dissolve the sub-assemblies and show every single part that is in the entire assembly. And then, finally, the Indented version is going to show not only the individual parts but then they're going to show the sub-assemblies as well as the parts that…

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