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Adding total Mass to the partslist in Inventor

Published date: 2009-Oct-30
ID: TS14078636

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Inventor® Professional Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor™ Professional 2009
Autodesk® Inventor® Routed Systems Suite 2009
AutoCAD® Inventor® Routed Systems Suite 2010
AutoCAD® Inventor® Simulation Suite 2010
AutoCAD® Inventor® Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor™ Suite 2009

Issue

How to add total mass of the entire assembly including the parts in the partslist of Inventor.

Solution

To create a total mass for an assembly in the partslist.

1. Open the BOM.

2. Right click any column to customize. Add Category and Mass as an additional columns and then add "mass roll up" as value in the entire Category column.

3. Create a partslist with Category and Mass column added to the partslist.

4. Edit Partslist and select group settings. Select Category as the First Key. Click Ok.

5. Right click on the Mass and choose Format Column.

6. Under Substitution tab - Enable Value Substitution - Select Mass under use the value column.

7. Under values used - select Sum of values.

8. Select Apply unit formatting and Click ok.

9. Total Mass of the assembly is added to the Partslist.

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