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Configure BOM, parts list, and balloons - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Mechanical Essential Training
Configure BOM, parts list, and balloons
- [Instructor] Other types of annotation that you might configure, are your bill of materials, your parts list, and your balloons. We've got a new drawing for you just to go through that. It's called configure_bom, bill of materials, .dwg. And as usual, you can download it from the library to follow along with the video. We're currently in layout one, and you can see how all of your dimensions, your balloons, your parts list, and so on, are all sitting there, quite neatly and tidily in the layout one tab. Now if you go to the annotate tab on the ribbon and click on BOM, in the BOM panel, you'll see there is your bill of materials there, like so. And it's all set up with the item numbers, the descriptions, the standard material, et cetera. Now, there are various ways that you can generate a parts list. There's a parts list here. You can generate it from the bill of materials. And there's your balloons there, as well, based on the current bill of materials. But how do you set all of…
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