Can't open BOM in Excel

Using SWX 2004 and Excel 2000 SR-1

About an hour ago I could double click on a BOM in a drawing. It opened up
(excel style) so I could copy the content to excel. But now everytime I
double click on the BOM it opens just one cell. Right click doesn't give me
an 'edit' possibility. I uninstalled excel and reinstalled. For some reason
the same problem exists with a colleague. Is it the combination Excel 2000
and SWX2004. I restarted several times, also between installations.

Thx.

 

Can't really say where Your specific problem comes from, but if You just
need to get Your bom into a new spread sheet, all You need to do is
highlight it, go to file on the menu and pick save as, this will save Your
bom as an excel-file.

Krister

 

Sorry, but no. If I highlight the table (or rightclick > select > table) and
go to File > Save As, I can only save as bom template, txt or cvs.

It looks like SW doesn't recognise that Excel is installed.

 

I tried a few drawings here and it works as always ....SW2004 and Excel
2002....even old files saved with Excel 97.

Krister

 

Hi Folks,

Let's not loose sight of the real situation with the new BOM. It's
still in BETA, not in production release.

It will not be released for production until sometime around the 2004
SP 5.0 timeframe - q3 of 2004 perhaps.

(for anyone who has not appreciated the sarcasm, please be advised
that the above diatribal proclimations are perhaps possibly not true.)

Desperately in need of (at least) a CSV or tab-delimited output,
preferably an OLE to excel or save as XLS.

Are we really expected to retype all that stuff when we need to load
data into MRP?

Do we hit the way-too-big-table formatting next . . . Or the MANDATORY
config name prependment to QTY in the column name . . . Or maybe the
apparent inability to alter bom item numbers by clicking the callout
balloons . . . or . . . or . . .

I can't wait until all the oddities are addressed. It all looks
promising, but that's all right now - too many quirks to navigate to
be really usable . . .

My greatest fear -> SW pronounces it "complete" and ignores the many
stumbling blocks, ignoring the excel BOM as legacy code and not making
it the tool it needs to be.

Regards-

SMA

 

Hi Deb!

Thanks for pointing out my serious lack of knowledge in such a
pleasant way. I'm still getting used to the differences here and the
file "save as" was not very obvious to me.

I would have "gotten it" if the save-as was built into the RMB, but I
can adjust.

The raw output to text worked very well, while the CSV was ok, but
only because I have commas in the description was it unworkable when I
input into excel.

Yes - I second that. After about 4 tries I got Sp 1.0 installed and
have seen a few better things. The BOM is now sizable (it may have
been before) by dragging the corners, the config name prependment in
"qty" may be manually overridden and is persistent (was not before),
the balloons act like they used too (double click) makes the BOM
update. Progress is being made. My faith is restored. That was
easy.

I agree. In so many ways it rules - my carpal tunnel / tendon trouble
is at bay - more design - less drafting. Secretly though, I still use
ACAD for some things because it works better for some 2D applications,
but I must confess that my T-square sees about as much action as my
Diazo machine (I see one "response" to your message that claims that
the t-square beats acad).

Thanks again for gracefully schooling me (smile).

Regards,

SMA