A few weeks ago we announced support for Autodesk Fusion360 native table features. If you missed my earlier blog, please check it here – OpenBOM Native Drawing Support For Fusion360. And today, I’m coming again with a piece of early information about new features in OpenBOM for Autodesk Fusion 360. We’ve been working with many…
I want to give you a very first preview of the OpenBOM integrated storage function. We’ve been around the decision to provide OpenBOM storage for quite some time. OpenBOM integrates with any cloud storage system out of the box (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, etc.). While it is no brainer decision to connect to one…
How often you use Solidworks and have a situation where you model assemblies but later buy them as “purchased assembled” (bearings, pumps, etc). On average 70% of parts and assemblies in the product you manufacturing are either outsourced or purchased. Purchased and outsourced assemblies can be great to optimize cost and work optimization, but it…
Happy New Year! We are starting 2020 on the right foot by introducing an improved Solidworks add-in data model and user experience. Historically, OpenBOM Solidworks Add-in was using File Name as an identifier of objects in Bill of Materials created from Solidworks. The strong feedback from customers and our own learning watching some of the…
A new year is an opportunity to look back and check what we’ve done, what is our purpose and what we would like to achieve next. You need to step back to see what you did because in day to day craziness, we often forget the things we accomplished. The slowdown Holiday season is a…
The information in the Bill of Materials and Catalogs sometimes is very complex and contains dozens of attributes. Grid is a good way to present them together, but often to have a panel with a set of attributes placed in a vertical column can be very useful. Therefore, we created the Item Information Panel. Sometimes…
One of the questions often asked by OpenBOM users and customers is how OpenBOM is merging data between CAD systems and Bill of Materials in OpenBOM. After talking to many users, I thought I’m ready now to write an article to summarize it and also clarify some potential misunderstanding. To start with, I’m talking about…
Earlier this week, I shared a series of articles about OpenBOM BOM and Catalogs. If you missed that, I will encourage you to take a look and Demystifying BOM and Catalogs Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. In the coming release, we are going to introduce a few new options how to improve user…