Place Bill ( Drawing Editor )

Tool summary :

  • Places a bill of material. A typical practice is to place a bill of material on a sheet outline for detail sheets.
  • One or multiple bills of material can be placed on a sheet outline . Place Bill can also be used to place a bill of material onto other Drawing Editor drawing types .
  • Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Drawing Presentation > the " Bill of Material " tab > " Minimum number of rows " sets the number of bill lines when a bill has no bill data in it.
  • The " Maximum number of rows " sets the number of lines that the bill can dynamically expand to when new bill data is added to a detail sheet using Sheet Item Add .
  • Once you have created a sheet outline with a bill of material on it, you can later create several (potentially hundreds) of detail sheets using the same sheet outline. All of those detail sheets will have the same bill of material on them.
  • Bills of material that are a sheet outline for detail sheets are automatically filled out with bill data at the time that details are added to that sheet using Sheet Item Add . This is not true for erection sheets. If more lines of bill data are contained on placed details than the " Maximum number of rows ", the extra bill information spills out beyond the borders of the bill.
  • Hovering a bill of material with your mouse pointer ( ) displays the number of the bill ( 1 or 2 or 3 , etc.) in its lower, right corner. For multiple bills of material on a sheet, bill 1 is filled first, then bill 2, etc. When you perform an operation that inputs data to a bill of material (e.g., Sheet Item Add ), bill 1 is filled out first, then bill 2, and so on.
  • To edit a bill of material, simply double-click it to open the bill's edit window . The changes made to that edit window will affect only the bill of material that you double-clicked. You might want to do this, for example, to modify a bill of material that is on an individual detail sheet .
  • To delete a bill of material, simply select the bill of material , then choose Edit > Delete or hit the Delete key.
  • To move a bill of material, simply drag it to a new location, or use Edit > Move/Stretch .
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Also see :

VIDEO A bill of material is placed on a sheet outline. Comparisons are made to the way that placing a bill used to be done in pre-2015 versions of SDS2 programs. (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v2015.)

VIDEO A bill of material is placed on a member detail and then customized so that it shows only columns that are not shown on the sheet bill of material. (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v2015.)

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  Example (also see the step-by-step instructions ) :

Place Bill is usually used to place a bill of material onto a sheet outline.

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  Step-by-step instructions (also see the example ) :

The following instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse.

1 . While on a sheet outline or other drawing type in the Drawing Editor , invoke Place Bill using any one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1 : Click the Place Bill icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Objects -- Bill of Material ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Objects > Bill of Material > Place Bill .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Place Bill can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .

2 . Locate- Pan -Return mouse bindings become active. The outline of the bill is displayed so that its upper-right corner snaps to wherever the point location target is at. The size of the outline is determined by the number of lines entered in step 3 and by the setup options selected for Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Sheets and Reports > Bill of Material Layout .

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3a (optional) : Select the Locate icon that you want (if its not selected already).

3b : Place the mouse pointer ( ) so that the upper, right-hand corner of the bill snaps to the location where you want it, then left-click ( Locate ).

3 . The status line reads, "Verify bill of material," and the bill of material is shown on screen. Yes - No mouse bindings become active.

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Alternative 1 : Left-click ( Yes ) to accept the bill's placement and continue.

Alternative 2 : Right-click ( No ) to go back to step 2.

4 . The outline of another bill is displayed. Locate- Pan -Return mouse bindings become active.

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Alternative 1 : Follow these instructions beginning with step 2 to add another bill of material.

Alternative 2 : Right-click ( Return ) to end the operation without adding another bill.

Tip: You may at this point want to Save or Save As to save the changes you have made to this sheet outline (or other drawing type). If you find that you don't like the results of the Place Bill operation, you can Undo .

For information on editing, deleting, moving and compiling information into a bill of material, see bill of material .

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