BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
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I'm working on a new product with ~250 pieces. Can the solidworks BOM or assembly tree be used to generate a working product cost. Basically, can I use my design tree (BOM) and add property information like supplier, price, etc... to do product cost analysis?






RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
Can you add the pricing information ect to each part in solid work FILE: PROPERTIES: CUSTOM
Then I could just run a macro in excel to do the analysis or basic summary each time I made pricing or model / BOM changes?
Let me know if this is an easy and feasible way to do this.
RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
To 'export" the BOM, first select (highlight) it, then do a Save As. The format can be CSV, TXT or XLS. (if it's an Excel BOM)
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RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
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SW 2006 SP 3.0
RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
But as rockguy pointed out you can use equations right in the BOM. Depends what version of SW & which BOM (Excel or SW) you are using.
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RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
It seem like you should be able to generate this information in the top level assembly (not in drawing mode), but either way works.
RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
I have used it but have found that the drawing BOM method to be more user friendly & more powerful.
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RE: BOM: Product Cost? What can SolidWorks Do?
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We initially had problems with the 'configuration specific' values not showing up in the feature manager - it happened because Windows was set to 'Hide Extensions For Known File Types'( see thread559-145544 ).
You'll have to enter the specific properties for each item and create a custom BOM showing the properties you need. Once that's done, you just pick the custom BOM and the assembly drawing to measure and you've got a working product cost. It can also update itself automatically if you make any changes to your assembly (like a different part supplier).
We export the BOM info for quoting and inventory control with Simply Accounting.
Scott Heiden