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joeb.243415
2010-04-21, 12:10 PM
Hello All,
When I add a bill of materials to a sheet, it doesn't combine some of the plates and change the quantity, but for others it does. Is there any way to manually change the content of this table to combine the items that are the same without having to explode the table? Also, I am confused about why it is not grouping them together to begin with? It is all shear plate connections created with the shear plate connection command. I am wondering if this is something I am doing wrong or if it is a glitch and if anyone else runs into the problem. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

kathy71046
2010-04-23, 12:38 AM
if it's not grouping your plates, then there is some differnce between them, either holes are slightly different, or size, it can be as little as .1mm depending on your project preferences settings.

You could increase the %, but that may casue long lengths that you do have a difference to be counted together, and unfortunately they didn't give us the option of specifying a distance rather than %.