T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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inserted in the BOM page that contains the full image of the BOM title block, including the header, the main
text and the table grid. The table boundaries are not specified in the template in this case. What is required in
this case is that the distance between the horizontal lines of the table grid in the fragment was equal to the
height of the template cells. In this case, the template (the textual table) is applied “over” the fragment and is
tied to its nodes.
Such a BOM is allowed to occupy several pages. Once the table is filled up on one page, the BOMs
continuation is automatically created on the new page. The BOM title block fragment inserted in the new
page is defined in the BOM prototype under the command “ST: Set Model Status”, the “Preferences” tab.
When creating a BOM, the template and the title block are created automatically according to the selected
BOM prototype. The BOM prototype is a document containing the empty BOM only. It has the BOM
template defined (the latter being the empty paragraph text with a table of certain type and formatting), BOM
properties and the title block fragment. The drawing settings define which title block fragment to insert when
continuing on the new page (for automatic creation of additional BOM pages). All these data are obtained
from the mentioned prototype when creating a BOM. In future, when working with the created BOM, the
user can manually change the BOM template, its properties and the title block.
Preparing Data for BOM
BOM data must be defined for each drawing that will be used as a fragment in the assembly. If the parameter
“Include in new BOMs” or the parameter “Include in BOM…” is set among the fragment parameters, then
these data will be automatically entered in the respective columns of the assembly BOM table. When
creating a BOM, one can use either the 2D or 3D fragment.
The BOM data is defined in the command “BD: Set BOM Data”. The command can be called by one of
the following means:
Keyboard Textual Menu Icon
“Tools|Bill of Materials|Data…”
The command is intended for filling in the standard and custom (user-defined) data entries of the BOM. A
pool of data entered in various entries on the tabs “Main Data” and “Custom Data”, is called a record. It has
the corresponding row (record) in the BOM. Three types of records are supported:
- Those included in the BOM of the current document;
- Those included in the assembly BOM, if the current document is its fragment and must be included in
the assembly BOM.
- Those included both in the assembly and current drawing BOMs.
If necessary, several records of any type can be assigned to the same T-FLEX document.
Upon calling the command, a dialog box will appear on the screen for viewing and entering the data for
BOMs.
The parameter “Show Records” allows setting one of the modes for
displaying the list of existing records in the table located below.
For example, setting the mode “Included in BOMs as Fragment” sets up the list to display only the records
flagged as “Include as Fragment” (see the section “Creating a new data record for BOM”).