Question: SW and BOM's

I have Microsoft Works instead of Microsoft Excel.

Can I generate a BOM in my Solidworks drawing with 'Microsoft-Works'?

WV

 

If you can afford Solidworks, why don't you have Excel?

 

Excel is required.

 

As usual, the moronic smart-asses seep from the cracks.

Believe it or else, my new laptop did not come with Office(Word, Excel)

A trip to Best Buy tomorrow will fix that, no go away.

 

Thank you TOP, that all I needed to know.

Cheers.

 

Excel is not required to generate BOMs for drawings ( at least in
2005/6). Excel is only be needed if you tie the bom data to an external
file. If the bom is only for internal sw use, excel is not needed.
Insert-annotations-tables-bill of materials.

 

However, Excel is still required for Design Tables.

 

Be careful who you call a moron, smart-ass. You might end up being
considered a moron yourself. Excel is NOT required for SolidWorks' own
native BOMs which first were introduced with SolidWorks 2005, but that
doesn't mean that Excel isn't required to make proper use of SolidWorks'
capabilities.

Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton
Watermark Design, LLC
www.h2omarkdesign.com