“Before we start, I must say, please check out The SW Geek, Alex Ruiz’s, coverage on BOM’s this week. You will walk away a smarter, more adept person with the ability to argue all the benefits of a SolidWorks BOM. This post will hit on some key points he’ll discuss and lean in on the areas that are most commonly neglected when creating a SolidWorks BOM.
Of course, this assumes you are using a SolidWorks BOM as opposed to an Excel-based BOM. I prefer the SolidWorks BOM because I can link views to the BOM and see what items have been called out. I also have a few more options for how I can work with configurations. The one drawback is formatting. It doesn’t work as good as an Excel-based bill, but hey, it’s gettin’ better. Here we go.” …
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Published by Josh Mings on 6/30/08 on SolidSmack
