Fasteners BOM

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Fasteners BOM

Menu location
Fasteners → BOM
Workbenches
Fasteners
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
None

Description

The Fasteners BOM generates a Bill of Materials. This tool is part of the external workbench called Fasteners.


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Usage

  1. Switch to the Fasteners workbench (install from Addon Manager is necessary, if not previously installed)
  2. Invoke the Fasteners BOM tool several ways:
    • Press the button
    • Use the Fasteners → BOM entry in the Fasteners menu
  3. When invoked the Fasteners BOM tool adds a spreadsheet to the FreeCAD document.
    • The spreadsheet represents the BOM of fasteners used in the model feature tree.

Notes

  1. Use the Spreadsheet Workbench to export the BOM to the csv format which can also be read and written by most other spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc.

Limitations

Properties

Base

  • DataLabel: User name of the spreadsheet object in the Tree view.
  • ViewView: Display Mode
  • ViewView: On Top When Selected, Disabled, Enabled, Object, Element, default: Disabled
  • ViewView: Selection Style, Shape or BoundBox, default: Shape
  • ViewView: Show In Tree, boolean, default: true
  • ViewView: Visibility, boolean, default: true

Scripting