NateTheOkay
Member
Getting the part weight into the title block seems to have been a problem for a while now. Like this post from 2006. My current solution is to add a 1-line BOM with just the weight. I made a BOM template for it, but you can't hide the top row. If you delete the "Weight" in the top row, Alibre will replace it the next time you update, but you can fill it with an empty space to stop that. Once the BOM is in the drawing, I position it and change the line pattern to Dot (2x). I end up with a few scattered dots on the print, but I can live with those. There's probably a way to make a line type with 0wt, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Does anyone have any better ways to do this that are a bit more automatic? like an AHK script for placing the BOM and changing the line pattern? or a script to set the weight to a custom part property?
Thanks!
Does anyone have any better ways to do this that are a bit more automatic? like an AHK script for placing the BOM and changing the line pattern? or a script to set the weight to a custom part property?
Thanks!