SW BOM OR EXCEL BOM

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by billyb, Feb 21, 2007.

  1. billyb

    billyb Guest

    Maybe this is to general a question, but what are major advantages and
    disadvantages of the SW BOM and EXCEL BOM?
    Any particular format the most popular?
     
    billyb, Feb 21, 2007
    #1
  2. billyb

    CS Guest

    Use the SolidWorks one the Excel one was more limited and is
    technically phased out yet still supported
     
    CS, Feb 22, 2007
    #2
  3. billyb

    yawdro Guest

    We use the excel bom because we manually renumber our BOMs and then
    sort by our new item numbers. In past releases, SolidWorks BOM would
    not allow this. It would always re-sort to the assembly ordering of
    the parts.
     
    yawdro, Feb 22, 2007
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  4. billyb

    Rory Guest

    We use excel. Our file names contain our detail numbers, so we use a
    formula in our excel bom to grab those digits out of the file name and
    use it for the item number in the bom.
     
    Rory, Feb 22, 2007
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  5. billyb

    CS Guest

    You can do this now with the SolidWorks BOM you can re-number and best
    of all the balloons follow along with the new numbers.
     
    CS, Feb 24, 2007
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