When columns need to reference certain properties, they can retrieve:

    • These are the custom properties of the SOLIDWORKS document.
    • Let these be the configuration-specific properties.
    • Use the custom properties, unless this property exists in the configuration

This option can be combined with the extraction of properties defined in the fabricated steel folder, if any.

When it comes to configuration-specific properties, you can narrow down your options.


 


In fact, when you request a bill of materials for the components selected from a file, you can retrieve:

    • The property values specific to the active configuration of the document being processed.
    • The property values of a specific named configuration.
    • The values for all configurations in the document being processed.

The benefit of using this feature is that you can extract and export a list in Excel format containing all the properties, and then edit the values directly in the file to modify all the properties of the documents listed using the " Integration" tool in myCADtools.


by checking this option, you authorize the modification of property values directly from the BOM generated by SmartBom. This option is only active if you authorize the modification of values in the "Column settings".