Starting the Report Manager

Call Report Manager via HiCAD

To create a bill of materials based on a drawing or an assembly in HiCAD, the parts to be output need to be BOM-relevant. In HiCAD there are two methods of making parts BOM relevant:

  1. Assign article master data to the part. In this case the part will be automatically recognised as BOM-relevant. Please note that the allocation of article master data is only possible if the PDM system HELiOS has been installed.
  2. Call the function Part attributes and assign the attribute BOM-relevant to the part. For this step, HELiOS is not required.

In HiCAD, you can specify the parts you want to output in the BOM by calling the function BOM Settings (via the HiCAD Edit menu) or by using the options enabling you to specify the scope of BOM output. These options enable you to set appropriate constraints.

BOMs can either be created for an entire drawing or for an active part. The functions Bill of Material, for entire drawing and Bill of Materials, for active assembly can be found in the Itemisation/Detailing function group, in the context menus for parts and in the context menu of the ICN. Depending on the current settings for BOMs, HiCAD collects the appropriate information and automatically displays it in the Report Manager.

Call Report Manager via HELiOS Desktop

If you work with the HELiOS Desktop, the BOM will be derived from the product structure. To do this, right-click the product structure and choose Output to ReportManager.

Furthermore, each result list in HELiOS can be output to the Report Manager using the Print result list function on the toolbar above the result lists:

External program call

To start the Report Manager from an external program, i.e. independent of HICAD or the HELiOS Desktop,

Create BOMs (HiCAD) • BOM Settings (HiCAD)

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Version 2302 - Report Manager
Date: 14/09/2018

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