SOLIDWORKS PDM Tutorial - Creating BOM Virtual Parts

This video shows you how to add a “blank” part to a SOLIDWORKS PDM Bill Of Materials (BOM). I offer a simple-to-teach PDM workflow method that can be used entirely outside of SOLIDWORKS by anybody using a PDM Contributor or editor license. Everything I show is “out-of-the-box” capabilities for PDM Standard or PDM Professional that won’t require any particular setup or unique configuration.
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This is cool. But how canb I get the virtual part into my BOM on the Drawing?

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When using PDM’s “named” BOM method, you can save it as an excel file and insert the excel file as your BOM. If you want to add a “virtual” part to Solidworks as a “computed” BOM, you can right-click on the BOM table and use the “insert new” part command. Using this workflow, you wouldn’t need to add anything as a named BOM item in PDM as it would already be there.