Excel (or spreadsheets) is one of the greatest inventions of IT for the last decades. Flexible, powerful and easy to use. But, it brings too many problems when it comes to engineering and product data management. In my Do’s and Don’ts of Escape Plan from Excel, I shared my recommendation on how you can move…
CAD data is one of the main sources of engineering information used to create the Bill of Materials and extract additional data to organize OpenBOM Catalogs. OpenBOM provides a wide range of CAD integrations. You can get list of available OpenBOM integrations on our website here. If you have questions about specific integrations, please reach…
Best practices of Import BOM or Catalog to OpenBOM from your existing spreadsheet The things are rarely happening in the vacuum. Usually, you have already a bunch of data in spreadsheets you want to bring to OpenBOM to keep managing or using this data in the future. What are the most typical use cases? Over…
One of the ways to create a new BOM or Catalog is to create them from scratch. If you skipped the fundamentals of OpenBOM data management, I recommend you to check this out before moving forward. BOM and Catalogs are fundamental elements of data in OpenBOM. Catalog defines a distributed database of all items (standard,…
I’m starting the next level of OpenBOM Basics series of blog articles. In my first series (OpenBOM 101), I covered the main features of OpenBOM in my 101 videos. You can watch them on openbom.com/pricing page or Youtube Channel. Today, I want to talk about fundamental elements of OpenBOM data management. I will be talking…
As we continue developing OpenBOM, we found a growing number of OpenBOM Professional Teams are demanding more advanced set of features. When we first introduced Team Subscription, our intention was to simplify data sharing and enable a group of people to use OpenBOM together, getting automatic sharing of Bill of Materials, Catalogs, and other information. …
We’ve been getting many requests to expand OpenBOM integration with Google Sheet. I’m happy to share some early information about OpenBOM import from Google Sheet coming in the next release (yay!!!). So, let’s say, I want to import BOM from the following Google Sheet The first function will integrate Google Sheet file picker from OpenBOM import…
Management of Part Numbers is often causes some confusion for customers working with Solidworks. The questions about Part Number settings are coming so often, so I decided to write a short article to help our users installing OpenBOM for Solidworks to get around. First thing first. How Solidworks manages part numbers. There are 3 main…
Since the very early days of OpenBOM, we’ve been focusing on how to help engineers and teams to work together. OpenBOM unique real-time collaboration and sharing helps people working on the same project, product, Bill of Materials to share data and exchange information. At the same time, we are continuously learning new things from our…
Working with Solidworks multi-body part such as weldment can be tricky in Solidworks. Especially when you need to create Bill of Materials. In some situations you would like to have an entire Solidworks part as a single line in a BOM. And sometimes, you need it to have with all bodies as a cutlist. Fortunately,…