By admin | September 16, 2009
“So as is becoming standard on Friday’s I will cover a couple of the other assembly changes that you will see in this year’s release of SolidWorks. Every year there are updates/changes that you will see that are minor in regards to the actual change and who might use them but still are very important [...]
“Earlier this month for Standards Tuesday, I spent a couple of weeks describing BOMs per ASME Y14.34-1996. If you missed them I highly recommend you go back and read those post since they cover a lot of information that would be helpful in creating your own BOM template, see Standards Tuesday – Bill of Materials [...]
“Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are [...]
“Today we continue our discussion on using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008. Be sure you go back and read my previous post Creating Your BOM Template and Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008 before reading on. I would also highly recommend Josh’s coverage of BOM at SolidSmack, SolidWorks BOM Superstar: 5 Moves to Avoid and How to [...]
“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 [...]
“I think one of the great features added to the 2009 SolidWorks release is the ability to include a cut list in your top level assembly BOM.” …
Keep Reading: CATI Tech Notes: CUT LIST IN YOUR BOM.
Published by Todd Werginz on 5/14/09 on CATI Tech Notes
By admin | April 30, 2009
“Shhhh, in all actuality, this will not only show you how to add custom lengths to a Bill of material (BOM), but will allow you to harness the almighty power of custom properties in SolidWorks. It’s quick, it’s easy and it’s this week’s two-minute Tut.” …
Keep Reading: SolidWorks Tutorial: How to Add Custom Lengths to [...]
By admin | April 28, 2009
“SOlidWorks BOM’s have gotten a lot of nice functionality, but somehow, there’s bits and pieces of working with them that 1) take getting use to or 2) make you very frustrated. Two of those things are 1) getting to the BOM properties and 2) moving the BOM.
How can you ease your part list woes and [...]
