Malcolm Crowe Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) One of the things that we like to do is to sort our parts alphabetically before giving parts numbers, and to sort standard components such as fasteners also. In a large assembly this can be a tedious process when it comes to fasteners. The following is a trick that we have recently discovered that simplifies this sorting. Step 1. Place the parts within a temporary assembly (within the desired final location). Step 2. Disassemble the temporary assembly. The parts are automatically sorted during disassembly. Attached are some before and after images along with a video. Malcolm Sorting Parts Alphabetically.mp4 Edited March 11, 2023 by Malcolm Crowe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Malcolm, I was just curious (we also do this in sorting fasteners, but to keep the scene browser easier to navigate during prototyping or final assembly due to the large amount of them), why the "##" before the fastener names? Is there an IC reason for this or just a company thing? Also, if its not too much trouble, how do you generally handle fasteners in the drawing BOM? - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Crowe Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Hi Spencer, The reason for giving standard components such as fasteners "##" as a part number is simply our company practice for grouping and sorting reasons within the project folder. See attached image. This is a general Windows File Explorer thing for us, where we use "##" in front of file names that we want to group, and "#" in front of folders that we want to group. Attached are images of a typical BOM for an assembly of sub-assemblies. We sort by part number, and then have the "##" parts at the end sorted by part name. This BOM is only showing the fasteners required to assemble these sub-assemblies together. Within the 3D scene these fasteners are at the same level as the sub-assemblies. Each of these sub-assemblies then have their own drawings and BOMs (including related fasteners). When requested, we also create specific BOMs on separate sheets for complete projects (for materials ordering purposes). For example, all of the structural steel members (including lengths), or all of the fasteners. I hope that answers your questions. Malcolm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSIMMONS Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Malcolm, It does answer my question, Thanks. We are currently not using CAXA and sometimes the BOM can be a bit limiting in .icd. We like to include a description of where or what the fastener is for which created a new column in the BOM so we like to do a BOM for fasteners and one for everything else. This is when it gets a bit tricky so I was just curious how you handled your fasteners, but the CAXA BOM's seem to have a little more freedom. Currently we have to create two BOM's from the same view, split them both where the parts end and fasteners begin, put one half on hidden layer for each one and that allows us to edit the column titles while maintaining the correct item bubbling. If anyone knows of a good method for this that is more direct please let me know. Thanks again. - Spencer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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