Autodesk Virtual Academy: Bill of Materials Configuration in Inventor 

Thanks and welcome!

Hi Hung, Thank you for your question! If you edit the parts list then, then expand the parent. Then click on the Group Settings button. Then check the Group box. Then in the first key select part number. Then click apply then ok. Then you will show the quantity of the child parts in the parents. Note this will not call out the parent in the parts list and description is automatically generated. Jeremy Gerdes|KETIV Applications Engineer

Hi Eoin, What are you trying to accomplish? That way we can give you the best guidance to get to your intended end result.

@@KETIVTechnologies love the videos, I wish more cad solutions providers went to the same rounds! So I do a lot of work with aluminium extrusion. typically we have panels on most of these extrusions. I created an excel that allows me to calculate the price of these panels. I was able to seperate the Panels in my Bom as I had them categorised as Purchased parts and was able to filter them in the parts list using the purchased parts only Filter. Now that I see what the true use of the purchased Part BOM category I want to use that for all the parts that are required to be ordered. This means I need to create a new class for my Panels. This leads me to my question can you create a custom BOM Category. Eg: Inseperable, Purchased, Refernce, Normal, "Panel". Hope this clears things up. Thanks