Creating Accurate Indented BOMs in Enterprise PDM

I've been faced with a problem of creating an indented BOM that shows all items, both inside Solidworks Assembly files, and those "copy-pasted as reference".

Our problem was this. We have assemblies with a large number of files include. Normally we suppress instances of repeating parts to improve performance, and have a more clear display. So if I ran an Indented BOM from the top level, I would not see ALL the parts that are supposed to be in the BOM. I would basically see the display configuration BOM.

So my solution is this: Use the "default" configuration of each assembly to include ALL items. **an important note is that copy-paste as reference pastes the default BOM, so that's good!**.

Other configurations can be made for display purposes.

Every Assembly's "default" configuration will use each child's "default" configuration. Different configs can be made for the drawings.

If you follow this logic all the way up the chain, if you look at the Default BOM for the top level as indented, you'll see all items included.

Chinman