If you
need to do a BOM report you can do that really easy from within the BOM but
it doesn’t export thumbnails. For the engineer working on the project it might
be easy to identify parts by description and part number but it’s almost
impossible to others.
There
is a small addon on modthemachine that can do that, but it exports to Word
because Excel doesn’t support embedded images in table cell. So instead of having
floating images in Excel you can get embedded images in Word tables.
The
program creates a small icon in the Drawing environment Tools \ Report \
Thumbnail Parts List. In order to use it you need to place a parts list in the drawing.
You don’t need to add any views, just go to Annotate \ Table \ Parts List.
The
addon will export whatever the Parts List displays, so it’s best to place the
table with “All Levels” in the parts list window. Now you can expand and
collapse levels, change description and chose different columns, play with
filters, group settings and even type custom values just like I did on my
washer.
When
you are finished customising the table use the report buttons under tools to
generate a word document. Don’t use word while it’s working because it will
generate the table in the current word session so don’t make other word windows
active. You can check progress in Inventor lower left corner, status bar.
When
finished, you must save the word document because it doesn’t get save
automatically.
The
addon and VBCode is on modthemachine website but I have attached it as well in
case it gets pulled off.
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