About Creating an EBOM
The Bill of Material (BOM) contains information about the CAD objects required during the manufacturing process.
You can create an Engineering BOM (EBOM) from the CAD object structure using EBOM Synchronization to ensure the EBOM structure matches the CAD model structure.
When you create a CAD object in X-CAD Design Management, the system automatically creates a related Part object. The relationship can be to any revision of the Part. Each CAD model within an assembly is associated with a specific Part. When you use the EBOM Synchronize function, the EBOM (the list of Parts) is built to match the CAD assembly structure.
You can construct different portions of the EBOM based on completely different models; that is, one portion can be created using an MCAD model, while another portion can be created using an ECAD model.
EBOM is generated for revisions right from the first maturity state with latest file modifications checked into that revision.
If any changes are made to the design, the revision object has the latest changes and the file is always with the revision. After performing an EBOM synch in any state, the part specification relationship is connected with revision object.
Therefore, after performing EBOM Sync if you have created new iterations in the same revision, then it is recommended that you perform EBOM sync on the revision again to synchronize the engineering BOM structure with the CAD Structure from that revision.
If an EBOM is created before CAD objects are released, after releasing the CAD Structure run an EBOM Synch on the released structure to syncronize the engineering BOM structure with the CAD Structure.
The engineering part is always connected to the revision object.
If you have used EBOM Synchronize on revision --- of a design and the engineering parts are not in the Released state (as defined in the EBOM Sync config object), later use EBOM Synchronize on revision --A, the revision --A replaces the revision ---.
You are informed if an EBOM exists for a CAD structure when you synchronize. The subsequent EBOM Synchronize operation updates any structural changes, such as added or removed CAD models.
If you used EBOM Synchronize on revision --- of a design and the promote the engineering part to the Released state (as defined in the EBOM Sync config object) and later use EBOM Synchronize on revision --A, then new revision of engineering part is created and connected to revision --A of the design.
For family type objects, the EBOM synch must be performed from the object's Instance details page, because the Part object created is specific to that instance.