Hello,

I am really confused on the part number subject in SolidWorks. I have worked for the last year with Autodesk Inventor so I am kind of hung up on how Inventor handles this. It has a property called "Part Number" and it does not require for the file name to be the same with the part number. This is what I look for in SolidWorks as sometimes I change the part number without changing the file. Also I think that the part number should not be given at the creation point but some time latter.

So, can someone make some light for me. I looked through the api help and found out that to get the part number I also need a configuration, based on the swBOMPartNumberSource_e enumeration and this enum is not at all flexible: document name, configuration name, parent name or alternate name.

Is it possible for the part number to be something else - something like a custom property like I am used in Inventor? And how do I link this property to BOM?

How is this done?