Now this is not ideal as you you would then have to go and manipulate the data to not have to waste someone elses time having top sift through the design.

When you suppressed the components in your main assembly and you had a look at your Bill of Materials, it would show the components you suppressed but with a value of 0. The issue that arises in previous versions of Autodesk Inventor is with your Bill of Materials. You wold not delete the components or sub-assemblies as this would lead to complications if you need a configuration or option that included those parts or sub-assemblies. When working with these different configurations you would suppress different components and sub-assemblies to get the correct assembly out. This would lead to either some components getting removed from the design but what does that do to your Bill of Materials? When working in Autodesk Inventor and assemblies, you would sometime in the design have to present different options or configurations to the client.

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