To Export a Bill of Materials to a Spreadsheet or Text file

  1. On the ribbon, click Assemble tab Manage panel Bill of Materials .
  2. In the Bill of Materials dialog box, click Export Bill of Materials.
  3. In the Export Bill of Materials dialog box, select the BOM view to export. If you select the Structured view, select the data to export.
    Note: To include the thumbnail images in the exported file, the Thumbnail column must be included as a column the Bill of Materials dialog box.
  4. Choose OK to close the Export Bill of Materials dialog box.
  5. In the BOM Export dialog box, enter the file name, table name, select the type of file to export, and then click Save.

Add a bill of materials to the Engineer's Notebook

You can add the bill of materials to the notes in the Engineer's Notebook. The table is added as a note window that links to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

  1. On the ribbon, click Assemble tab Manage panel Bill of Materials .
  2. In the Bill of Materials dialog box, click Engineer's Notebook.
  3. In the Insert into Engineer's Notebook dialog box, select the BOM view to export. If you select the Structured view, select the data to export.
  4. Click OK to close the dialog box.
Parent topic: Bill of Materials Editor