Bill of Material

 

 

 

Summarize and produce the bill of materials used in the structural analysis model by element types, material types and section shapes of all the elements (line, planar and solid elements).

Bill of Materials calculates the quantities of materials during the initial estimation or design stage. It can be effectively used during the Optimum Design stage, once the structural design is completed and the member weights become known.

      • Principal Functions

- Produce bill of materials by material properties / section property numbers

- Auto-calculate the length, painting area, weight and volume of members

- Classify rolled sections and built-up sections for steel members

- Auto-calculate the weights and areas by thicknesses of steel plates for built-up sections

- Calculate the volume of concrete for concrete members

- Provide weight summary sheets for the entire model for each element shape of each material type

- Provide a summary for the weight of the entire model

 

      • B.O.M Output Format

Beam - Truss Element BOM type1: Classify line elements per property number, section ID and material property

Beam - Truss Element BOM type2: Classify line elements per section ID and material property

Beam - Truss Element BOM type3: Classify line elements per section ID only

Built - up Plate BOM type1: Classify steel plates constituting built-up line elements per thickness and material property

Built - up Plate BOM type2: Classify steel plates constituting built-up line elements per thickness only

Plate type Element BOM: Classify planar elements per thickness and material property

Solid Element BOM: Classify solid elements per material property

BOM by Material: Summarize the total quantities per material property

 

 

 

From the Main Menu select Tools > Generator > Bill of Material.

 

 

      1. Select the Bill Of Material menu to display the dialog box shown below.

      2. The List Box displays the list of BOM output formats. Unused elements do not appear in the list.

      3. Check in the desired output formats.

      4. Select whether the output will be in the form of a general text (TXT) or RTF in Output Options. Check in "Insert form feed at each output end" if a page feeder is to be inserted at the end of each output format.

      5. Use to assign a file name in which the output will be saved or directly enter the "File Name".

      6. Click to save the file and automatically display the contents in the Text Editor.