OpenBOM For Autodesk Inventor – Basic to Advanced

Oleg Shilovitsky
Oleg Shilovitsky
4 September, 2020 | 1 min for reading
OpenBOM For Autodesk Inventor – Basic to Advanced

Our next educational webinar is about OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor. OpenBOM Director of User experience Steve Hess takes you through simple to advanced BOM methods using OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor.  Please bring your questions and join the call.  

We will cover simple BOMs, Multi-Level BOMs, items management, the specific Autodesk Inventor settings which govern BOM creation, rolling up costs and mass, and finally how to create PO’s using the OpenBOM single click “Create POs” command.

There are 6 lessons in this webinar:

Lesson #1 – OpenBOM and Inventor Settings

Lesson #2 – Make a BOM of the bike fork. Add a property in Inventor, Update the OpenBOM

Lesson #3 – (Re) organizing items into Categories (Catalogs).  Ex. Hardware

Lesson #4 – Assigning Costs, Rollups and Assigning Vendors

Lesson #5 – Creating an Order BOM and POs 

Lesson #6 – BONUS – creating a Template for future BOMs

Here is the video

And also a slide deck:

Webinar #28 – OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor from Oleg Shilovitsky

Conclusion

OpenBOM Add-in for Autodesk Inventor provides a seamless and efficient way to create a Bill of Materials directly from CAD assembly, organizing cost, assigning vendors, and prepare purchase orders. You can download the add-in from the Autodesk app store and start using it in a matter of minutes. 

You can download OpenBOM for Autodesk Inventor here or using Autodesk App Store

Best, Oleg @ openbom dot com.

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