I am fairly new to weldment BOMs, and I was wondering if there is a way to tell the system the size of material that is available. For example, I used the weldment tools to make a part and put six of them in an assembly to see if SolidWorks would tell me how many pieces of the raw material I would need to buy.
When I did the indented BOM with the Detailed Cut List selected I got this:
When I deselected the Detailed Cut List I got the length of one of the weldment parts in the
Is it possible to manipulate the values of the weldment BOM to tell me: 'In order to make 6 of these parts that are 235" (As Welded length), you need to buy 3 40 foot sticks of 12x4x0.375 rectangular tube, which will leave 3 pieces of drop each measuring 5 inches (minus loss due to the cut thickness)'.
Taking it a step further, the drawing below is a rough representation of the part I have in mind. One end of the part has a 45 degree cut, so we utilize that cut as a common cut to save almost a foot of the material as shown. Is there any way the have SolidWorks also recognize that ability?