Project: HiCAD Basics

Bills of Materials and Weld Seam Test Protocols

Drawing > Itemisation/Detailing > BOM

Bills of Materials (BOMs)

A so-called Bill of Materials (short: BOM) lists all parts of which a product is composed – including quantities, designations, item numbers, and other information. In so doing, a BOM provides essential information to all parties involved in a production process.

Parts that are listed in the BOM must be marked as BOM-relevant in HiCAD. If you are using the HELiOS PDM system in parallel, this property is assigned automatically when article master data is assigned. If the article master assignment is deleted, this property is removed again.

If you are using HiCAD without HELiOS, you must assign the ID manually to the parts:

1. Select the Part attributes function, e.g. via the 3-D Standard tab, the 2-D Part tab, or via the context menu for parts.
2. Activate the BOM-relevant checkbox.
3. If required, enter additional information like remarks, weight, quantity, description etc.
4. Apply the data by clicking the OKbutton.

Please note:

• You can also use the Find function of the ICN to assign or change the BOM-relevance and the part attributes. It also allows you to mark several parts as BOM-relevant in one step.
• In the case of steel engineering parts, the fields - with the exception of additional texts - are automatically filled, depending on the part type.
• When catalogue parts like beams+profiles, bolts, nuts etc. are inserted, the part type is automatically entered into the attribute mask.
• If you are using parts with a article master ID from HiCAD 2, the BOM-relevance is set to "Yes" when you load the drawing/part. This applies regardless of whether the article master ID is found in the database.
• Please also read the notes on welded parts in BOMs.

To create the bill of materials , proceed as follows:

1. If required, call the BOM Settings function and choose there which parts you want to be taken into account in the bill of materials creation.
2. Now, start the BOM creation using the
3. BOM for entire drawing or
4. BOM for active assembly function.

3. The bill of materials is then displayed for further processing in the HiCAD Report Manager. The Report Manager is a powerful tool for defining individual structure or quantity bill of materials. It provides numerous functions, such as assignment of filters, a wide variety of sort criteria and export to various formats like Excel or HTML. For further information, see the online Help of the Report Manager, which can be deployed both as an integrated component of HiCAD and HELiOS and as an external tool.

View ID for trimmed beams

For beam and profile sections a section ID can be output in bills of materials (BOMs). For this purpose, the attributes 

• H_Beam schematic sect. drawing top view (Attribute name: H_$09) and
• H_Beam schematic sect. drawing front view (Attribute name: H_$10)

are available.

Output will be a string that designates the sections of beams or profiles, e.g.:

• |-------| straight
• 75° /-------| or 75° \--------|  trimmed/cut

45° cutting angles (45° \--------|) are also shown in the View (Flange) column (Top view of cut). If you do not want this, open the Configuration Editor, go to Steel Engineering > Cutting angle and deactivate the Show 45° cutting angle in section schema checkbox.

To be able to use the IDs for for your BOMs you need to change the Report Manager settings accordingly, i.e. in the RMS-file used for BOM generations you need to add the columns:

Further information on the procedure can be found in the Help of the Report-Managers.

Weld seam test protocols

Weld seam test protocols are special BOMs for Steel and Metal Engineering, that enable a determination of the scope of weld seam inspections according to DIN EN 1090.

The test protocol can either be created for the entire drawing, or only for the active assembly.

The following requirements must be met:

• An execution class according to DIN EN ISO 1090 must have been assigned to the assemblies,
• an inspection category must have been assigned to the weld seams.

Drawing Attributes • Part Attributes