The final (part IV) webinar from the series of OpenBOM Best Practices for Solidworks speaks about BOM maintenance, which includes lessons about how to manage changes in CAD design, update and revision bill of materials, and in general all changes you need to make in SOLIDWORKS and BOMs. There are 4 lessons in this webinar:…
If you followed our webinar sessions, I’m sure you attended a series of best practices webinars about how to use OpenBOM with Solidworks. Check them out in our Online Training Library. Check for the Webinars section. Our webinar this week is Part IV of OpenBOM for Solidworks. The webinar will focus on how to maintain…
The history of CAD system development counts decades of work done by many vendors. The generation of CAD system development made huge improvements in how engineering work can be done. Data management was for a long time an Achilles heel in CAD systems. Recent cloud CAD improvements took CAD systems to the next level –…
We continue a series of webinars about Solidworks and OpenBOM. In today’s article, we cover part III, which talks about the topic that often drives a lot of questions – configurations and purchased assemblies. In addition to that, I want to remind you that we recently introduced an updated version of OpenBOM Add-in for Solidworks,…
One of the most typical scenarios I can see with many OpenBOM customers is related to management of purchased assemblies in the Bill of Materials. As much as it sounds simple, it is often creates difficulties to users. Such an assembly should be fully detailed in CAD (eg. Solidworks assembly), but at the same time,…
Solidworks is a de-facto standard for the professional mechanical CAD system (MCAD). If you’re a mechanical engineer or manufacturing company, you most likely to use Solidworks. While Solidworks provides great designing capabilities and a capable set of tools to manage files, to manage Bill of Materials derived from Solidworks data, if you need to make…
Integration with engineering data and CAD systems is a big thing. Think about connecting your CAD design data and to Bill of Materials in the instant and easy updatable data set. This is what we do at OpenBOM. We provide integrations to all CAD systems. You can get out of the box CAD add-ins to…
Last week, we had the first webinar in the series of “Best Practices”. We realized the amount of materials to share is large and we want to split it in a series of smaller bite-size webinars. If you missed the last, check it out in the OpenBOM Webinars’ Archive or navigate to this link. In…
How to create BOM for Solidworks? Sounds like a simple question? If you’re Solidworks user, you probably did it many times by creating Excel export. It is simple, but it is a pandora box of spreadsheet BOM hell. A simple process of export creates tons of questions: 1- How to share the file with people…
At OpenBOM, we put a high priority on mastering the engineering Bill of Materials and helping to build the most efficient path of BOM creation from a CAD system. OpenBOM add-ins for CAD systems combined together with OpenBOM flexible data management platform is a foundation of how OpenBOM streamlines the process of engineering BOM creation.…