I'm trying to set up the bill of materials so that it canproduce a cutting list for welded assemblies not made using'weldments' - just using parts. To this end, as an experiment I'veset up a 'Rectangular Hollow Section' Part - with severalconfigurations.
In order to get the overall length I made a configuration specificcustom property 'length' - set it to 'text' and then clicked thelength dimension - the address of which went into the 'value'column.
I then opened a drawing - added two instances (differentconfigurations) and added a BOM. I added a new column and set itsproperty to 'length'. Sure enough it came up with the appropriatevalue.
However after saving and re-opening the numeric length has beenreplaced with the dimension reference in both the BOM and theproperties table?
Does anyone know if I'm doing something silly?
Thanks, DebbieSolidworksConfigurations design Tables

In order to get the overall length I made a configuration specificcustom property 'length' - set it to 'text' and then clicked thelength dimension - the address of which went into the 'value'column.
I then opened a drawing - added two instances (differentconfigurations) and added a BOM. I added a new column and set itsproperty to 'length'. Sure enough it came up with the appropriatevalue.
However after saving and re-opening the numeric length has beenreplaced with the dimension reference in both the BOM and theproperties table?
Does anyone know if I'm doing something silly?
Thanks, DebbieSolidworksConfigurations design Tables