SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part V: Creating Drawings

Table anchor

A table anchor locks a corner of the table to a selected point on the drawing sheet format. If no

point is selected in the format, then the table is placed at a corner of the sheet. To specify a point

in the format to act as the anchor, you must be editing the format. Right- click the sheet and select

Edit Sheet Format). Then right-click a sketch endpoint in the format, select Set As Anchor, and

specify which type of table the anchor is for. You can set different anchor locations for different

types of tables. Figure 24.3 shows the selection and menus for this option.

FIGURE 24.3

Setting a BOM table anchor

Tip
You should save the format and drawing template with these table anchors specified so that you do not need to
re-specify them for each new document. If you want to check a Sheet Format to see what anchors exist, you
can expand the Sheet in the FeatureManager of the drawing. n

BOM type

You can use one of three BOM types in SolidWorks: Top-level only, Parts only, or indented.

As the name suggests, the Top-level only BOM only shows components on the top level. It treats

subassemblies as a single entry. As a result, if the top-level assembly shown on the drawing is made

up of five subassemblies and two individual parts, and you select the Top-level only option, then

only seven items are shown in the BOM.