Users have three options for creating parts lists from an assembly:

  • All Parts
  • First level only
  • All subsets.

These three methods correspond to the three types of bills of materials offered by SOLIDWORKS. Using the bills of materials interface, the user can:

  • Deselect the components he does not want to appear on the component sheet.
  • Reorder the components.
  • Break down a subset to move its components up to the next level.

Views are created on the sheets in the order in which the components appear in the bill of materials.


This step is therefore very important before launching the AssemblyBoard tool.

If you add, delete or rearrange components after creating the boards, you need to run the AssemblyBoard as the nomenclature will be modified.

The tool AssemblyBoard cannot be used directly in the 3D assembly environment.