BOM with Steel Structure

In Autodesk Inventor, a Bill of Material (BOM) with steel shapes, from the content center, gives an interesting result at the quantity table. Instead of seeing the total number of parts, you see the total length of your steal shapes by default, as below. There are different ways of manipulating the BOM to show the number of parts.

Option one, override the QTY table. 1. Right click on the BOM, select Edit Parts List 2. In the Edit Parts List, right click on the QTY Table and select Format Column 3. Select the Substitution tab 4. Select Enable Value Substitution 5. Browse Properties in the When exists, use value of table and select ITEM QTY 6. Leave the rest as default, and select OK. Result below has no more length.

Another option would be to insert the ITEM QTY table. 1. Right click on the BOM, select Edit Parts List 2. In the Edit Parts List, select the Column Chooser Icon 3. Remove the QTY table and add ITEM QTY If you want to change the name of ITEM QTY to QTY, go to Format Column and rename it in the Column Format tab.

One thing to keep in mind is that these settings could easily be done at the style editor.