Bill Of Materials

[wpeacock]

Does anyone have any examples of creating a simple BOM from blocks inserted in a drawing?

Thanks

Wayne

[RobertB]

Yeah, use 2006's Attribute Extraction feature to make a Qty table.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Take a look here...

Extracting a BOM from blocks

Have a good one, Mike

[cparvez]

I use lisp to search my drawing for blocks (setq ss1 (sslength (ssget "x" (list (cons 0 "insert") (cons 2 "BlockName"))))) then fill out my attributed drawing schedules with that. As for a BOM. I use VB to set up an array and write the information to either Access. You will have to check if the record set already exist if so update it if not write a new one....

[wpeacock]

Thanks for the pointers chaps, it's a great help.
a few long weekends ahead I think...

Still can not find the 2006 Attribute Extraction "Button" on my AC2K software!
Will the 2006 version still work in 2012 when we eventually upgrade?