Interpretation of Woodwork for Inventor components

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Woodwork for Inventor BOM generator interprets Autodesk Inventor components and adds them to the specification (BOM). Due to additional information added during work, Woodwork for Inventor plug-in may have a different interpretation than Autodesk Inventor BOM generator. The table below shows how Woodwork for Inventor BOM generator interprets Autodesk Inventor components and types of BOM assigned to these components.

 

 

Interpretation of Autodesk Inventor components by Woodwork Inventor BOM generator

Interpretation of Autodesk Inventor components by Woodwork Inventor BOM generator

 

 

 

Assembly component

 

Assembly component.

Normal component

 

Part component, which is interpreted as a part of Woodwork for Inventor. This part carries with it all the information interpreted by Woodwork for Inventor. It may be workpieces constituting the part, their dimensions, etc..

 

Purchased component

 

Purchased component.

Inseparable

 

Inseparable component.

 

 

Please note that a normal component of an Autodesk Inventor part (without materials assigned by Woodwork for Inventor plug-in) is not interpreted by Woodwork for Inventor BOM generator at all and is not included in the report generated by Woodwork for Inventor plug-in. Thus, if a user wants to have their designed component of a part included in Woodwork for Inventor BOM reports, they should assign Woodwork for Inventor material or give the status of a purchased product to such component.

 

What components can have Woodwork for Inventor materials assigned to them?

 

1. "Normal" BOM structure – to part-type components.

2. "Normal" BOM structure – to iPart Factory. All members of such Factory will be interpreted as Woodwork for Inventor components.

 

In addition, Woodwork for Inventor makes it possible to transform a component into a virtual assembly. In other words, one component of Autodesk Inventor may contain a description of several purchased products and it will be interpreted by Woodwork for Inventor BOM generator. Such description of virtual components may be added to both simple components of a part and components of iPart. In such case, such component becomes a virtual assembly, which is interpreted depending on the assigned Autodesk Inventor BOM type (see table above). More information about how to add such descriptions of virtual assemblies of purchased products to a component is available here.

 

Virtual Autodesk Inventor components are always interpreted as purchased components.