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Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
2025-11-19
Emil Rindell
Jonas Bryntesson
Henrik Andersson
2025-11-19
To be able to perform these steps, you should know how to edit and save templates for both BOM and 2D drawings. If you are unsure, you can read more here:
How tochange settings in 2D drawing templates
Paths for program files and templates
Go to Menu > Open and browse to the path where your templates are located.
C:\Users\*YOUR IRONCAD
Go to Home > Styles And Layers (keyboard shortcut: L).
NOTE! If you don't have this style or want to add your own, press Add and make your changes here. To add a split bubble, you must select either Split Circle or Split Rectangle
Click Save to save the changes to the template, or Save As to create a copy with a new name.
Now open a 3D file and create a view of your new template. Then go to Annotation > Bill Of Materials (keyboard shortcut: B).
Select the BOM template you want to change and then press OK
Right-click on the BOM and select Properties.
Under the Item Bubble association, you can choose what to display in the POS balloons:
In this case, we want to retrieve the part number from the scene. Then we select Custom under Upper Split Text and typePart Number' (without quotes).
In the lower part, we want the number of parties to be displayed. So under Lower Split Text we select Qty.
If you want to display other values, use Custom and retrieve data from Parties/Collections.
Click OK to save the settings.
You should now have a result on the pos balloons that looks something like this:
You now need to save the BOM as a template. Right click on the BOM and select Save As Template:
Now navigate to the folder for the BOM templates, by default they are located here:C:\Users\*YOUR IRONCAD
Then enter a name for your BOM template and press save:
All clear! Do you have any questions? Don't hesitate to contact our support team.
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