SOLIDWORKS does offer a more streamlined way of populating flat pattern info into a bill of material using a Macro with specific API code written in it that could do it all in one click. It’s great that SOLIDWORKS gives you different ways to show specific information in the bill of material of your SOLIDWORKS drawings. 6 Flat Pattern description and bounding box area Info The finished drawing should look something like the drawing shown below. In order to do this, you simply double click on a column in the BOM and next choose to show the custom property called Bounding Box Area. The last thing we need to do is show the Bounding Box Area custom property column. Once you have filled in the flat pattern description manually, you will then go back to the drawing that has the Indented No Numbering BOM type in it and see the flat pattern descriptions are now shown under the description column. 5 Bounding Box Area and flat pattern description info You will also see a Description row which is where you go to fill in manually the name of the parts flat pattern description.
Within that column you will see the Bounding Box Area row which proves this custom property exist and is able to be shown in a BOM. Under the Cut-List Summary tab you will see a column called Property Name. In the Cut-List properties you will see three tabs. You now may be asking yourself, “Where did the flat pattern description come from?” In order to show this info you will need to open each sheet metal part file followed by right clicking on the Cut-List property icon in the feature tree and choose Properties. 1 Sheet Metal assembly drawing with no BOMĪfter choosing the correct type of BOM it should look something like the one shown below. For this we are going to pick the Indented No Numbering type. Before we place the BOM into the drawing we need to make sure we select the correct style of BOM to be used. So, you are probably asking yourself, “Where do you start?” Well, you first start by creating a drawing of your sheet metal assembly. After a little research it turns out that the answer is surprisingly yes and it’s not that difficult to achieve. In a recent support case, we were asked if sheet metal flat pattern info, specifically the flat pattern area, can be shown in a SOLIDWORKS drawing bill of material.
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