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Bill of Materials

Bill of Materials

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Bill of Materials

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- [Instructor] One of the nice features of the ortho drawing is that we can add a Bill of Materials to each drawing, should we have a need. This Bill of Material will contain all the parts that are in the volume that we chose to create our views. This is a straightforward process that uses AutoCAD tables that are populated with database values. So, let's go ahead and open our model. We're going to come up to create a new ortho. And we're going to create "09-07-ortho." So let's go look at our model selection here. We're going to say "okay," and we're going to keep this as a quarter inch, and we're going to load our ortho cube to our ortho V1, and we're going to say "okay." I'm going to turn my paper check off, and we're just going to say "okay," and grab this into our model here. So what we have here is a Bill of Materials based on this volume. So everything that we include in here, that's going to include our structural steel members, it's going to include our piping, and our…

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