Bill of Material Editor

Default Shortcut: B + B
This allow you to add, edit, and remove information from the bill of material.
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Columns in your bill editor may differ from these, depending on the settings in Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheets and Reports > Bill of Material Layout. The order of the columns may also vary.

To reorder one or more lines in the bill of material, left-click to select the line or lines (use the Ctrl or Shift to select multiple lines). Then either drag the selected lines to the desired position, or use Move Lines Up or Move Lines Down.

The links in the image above take you to the Bill of Material Layout page for more information.

Copy Line: copies the selected line.

Tip : You can copy lines from the bill for one drawing and paste them into the bill for another drawing.

Insert Paste: inserts the new line that was copied using Copy Line. The new line is inserted after the selected line.

Overwrite Paste pastes the new line that was copied using Copy Line overwriting the selected line.

Note: You cannot Overwrite Paste to the first line.

Add Line: adds a new blank line.

Move Lines Up: moves the selected lines up one row.

Move Lines Down: moves the selected lines down one row.

Delete Line: removes the selected line from the bill of material. Warning: To undo Delete Line), you can Reset, Cancel, or you can use Undo after you have closed the bill editor.

Preserve Cell: marks a cell with the Bill of material preserved color, which prevents its data from being overwritten when the member is re-detailed. This option only applies to the cell the mouse pointer is above when right-clicked.

Note: By default, cells that are preserved remain unchanged by member detailing as long as Preserve user modified BOM is checked when you re-detail this member.

Do Not Preserve Cell: marks a previously Preserved Cell to not be preserved allowing the system to overwrite the user change. This option only applies to the cell the mouse pointer is above when right-clicked.

OK (or the Enter key): closes the bill editor and applies any changes you have made to the BOM.

Note: After you press OK, you can still undo your changes by using Undo .

Reset: undoes all changes that you have made in the bill editor since it was opened.

Cancel (or the Esc key): closes the bill editor without applying any changes you have made.

  • Any entry that you make below the string FIELD BOLTS is considered to be a field bolt. This means, it will be shown on the Field Bolt Summary and related field bolt reports .

  • If you alter a cell in a member bill of material, the color of that cell changes to the Bill of material preserved color.
  • If you exceed the Field Width, the characters you enter overwrite into the next cell on the bill of material or wrap to the next line depending on the choice made to Wrap fields to next line on the edit window for the bill of material.
  • Yellow exclamation point icons indicate that a cell contains text larger than the field width, you can still select ok but not all contents will be shown.
  • Bill of Material Editor functions differently for different types of drawings. Detail Members automatically compiles bill info when it creates or updates member details. For other drawing types and for user-created member details, the user has to enter a bill manually using the bill editor.
  • The maximum number of characters for most fields is 79 characters. Sequence names are limited to 21 characters.