The purpose of this section is to provide industrial manufacturers with a single method for preparing, directly within SOLIDWORKS, a bill of materials (BOM) compatible with Spare Parts export via the myCADtools connector, without any subsequent modifications in the Spare Parts interface.

The general principles currently in effect are as follows:

• The Spare Parts Export connector reads the bill of materials generated by SOLIDWORKS.
• All structural decisions (presence of a component, assembly level, phantom assemblies, etc.) must be made in SOLIDWORKS.
• No editing of the bill of materials is possible in the Spare Parts interface: the SOLIDWORKS BOM is the reference.

The following checklist should be followed by the designer in SOLIDWORKS:

• Select the correct assembly configuration.
• Exclude irrelevant components from the BOM (Exclude from BOM, Envelope).
• Manage phantom assemblies (Promote) to ensure they appear at the correct level.
• Optional: Use a dedicated Spare Parts view if available.

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Enable or disable a component in the bill of materials

Exclude a component from the BOM

1. Open the assembly in SOLIDWORKS.
2. In the tree, right-click on the relevant component > Component Properties….
3. Check Exclude from bill of materials.
4. Confirm.

Result: The component remains in the 3D model but no longer appears in the bill of materials exported to Spare Parts.

Automatically exclude certain configurations

1. Open the part or subassembly in SOLIDWORKS.