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Commercial property MAKE/BUY depending on the assembly context

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DBWorks has the ability to manage MAKE_BUY information depending on the context assemblies. With a simple example, the same component can be listed in the BOM of an assembly and not listed in the BOM of a different assembly. This feature is currently available only in the BUY LIST command and in the EXCEL_BOM output.

Note: This feature takes into consideration the value of the option:
General → Assemblies → Force Parent-Child Make/Buy attribute from SW assembly components option:'[X] Excluded from BOM'
and acts consequently.

This feature integrates with the ability of SolidWorks to mark specific components as to be excluded from the BOM:

In order to store this information in the DBWorks database, a new field (language dependent) has been introduced in the PARENT_CHILD table or can be added using DBCustomizer.

The name of the field is:

The record-specific value of MAKE_BUY is always used when the parent-child specific value is NULL, else the parent-child specific value is dominant.

The value of PARENT_CHILD_MAKE_BUY field can be set in the RMB→Edit BOM ... dialog

Example

DOCUMENT table

PARENT_CHILD table