Using SolidWorks to Generate BOM

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by ES, Apr 21, 2004.

  1. ES

    ES Guest

    Hi,
    We are using SolidWorks to generate our BOM's for ordering sheetmetal
    parts. Some of the parts in our main assembly are welded assemblies.
    At this time we have been using the "parts only" to display our BOM's,
    because this will total up the qty of each part required for the main
    assembly. The downside is that its somewhat difficult to figure out
    what parts are required for the welded assembly. Now if we were to use
    the "indented assemblies" it would list all my welded assemblies but
    would also be time consuming to go review the entire list, especially
    when we have parts located in multiply sub-assemblies. I must also
    mention that our welded assemblies are drive by design tables so
    saving them as a part or making them a weldment doesn't make much
    sense. Has anyone ran into this issue or have any suggestion for us to
    get around it. Is there some sort of API that could be used to display
    the total qty of each part used in the main assembly and the total qty
    of each assembly.

    ES
     
    ES, Apr 21, 2004
    #1
  2. Hi ES,

    I belive our product "ToolWorks BOM Manager" will exclude your weldments
    from your BOM.
    You can give it a try...

    Download a free trial from http://www.toolworks.info

    Best regards
    Jess G. Frandsen
    SDH Development
     
    Jess G. Frandsen, Apr 21, 2004
    #2
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