estimating

Has anyone had any luck using solidworks to create bids orb estimates
on jobs. As in being ablre to inbed the data into the models and then
extract cost out of the assemblies. I know it is probably a long shot
but I figure I would ask.

 

We've used it in kind of a reverse way in figuring out the total cost of
the job when it's finished. We'll export the BOM to Excel and include
the cost of each item into the spreadsheet when it gets ordered since
the person ordering has no SW license. Makes it easier in the end to add
everything up. This could be done right in SW if it was available to
him. So it would be possible to do the same thing that you're looking at
doing right in SW.