SolidWorks: Enable SolidWorks BOM Item Number Propagation to Windchill
Product: Windchill Workgroup Manager for SolidWorks
Release: 11.0 F000
Benefit
Expose Line Numbers or Find Numbers from SolidWorks designs into the engineering BOM in Windchill as reference designators, which can be transferred to downstream business applications such as ERP. Support for mapping SolidWorks BOM Item Number information to EPM Document Usage Link attributes helps the overall process for traceability of components through the product life cycle from design to manufacturing.
Additional Details
This enhancement propagates the BOM item number information in SolidWorks to “Find Number” and/or “Line Number” of a Part Structure in Windchill. In this downstream process, the BOM item information in SolidWorks components is propagated to the CAD Document Uses Link Attribute.
When a SolidWorks assembly is saved, component attributes are assigned to each component separately.
The name of an attribute on the CAD Document Uses Link that should be copied to the Part Usage’s Find Number or Line Number is defined in WindchillPreference Management. Navigate to > > (or Line Number Attribute) and define the attribute in the Value field.