Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
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Hi All,
We use Inventor 11. My question is the following:
Is there a practical way to generate a report containing the BOM and cost (for every componant) within Inventor ? And would this database be "smart" or linkable to excell or access ?
If not, is there any software or plugin that could possibly do this ?
Please note, I do not use Inventor myself.
Any help or pointers are very appreciated.
Thanks
We use Inventor 11. My question is the following:
Is there a practical way to generate a report containing the BOM and cost (for every componant) within Inventor ? And would this database be "smart" or linkable to excell or access ?
If not, is there any software or plugin that could possibly do this ?
Please note, I do not use Inventor myself.
Any help or pointers are very appreciated.
Thanks





RE: Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
The quick answer is yes, you can put that information into Inventor and then get it back out again.
RE: Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
Hi aardvarkdw,
Thanks for your response.
I have noticed the estimated cost field in the iProperties menu, we filled it in for parts but the assembly cost does not add up the cost of the parts, everything has to be input manually.
Can you import iProperties from Excell ?
Excell links with Access so Excell functionnality would be fine with me.
Thanks again
RE: Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
There are a couple addins out there that I'm pretty sure would do the trick, but I don't use them so I can't give you much advise.
I would post the question to http://www.mcadforums.com/forums/
also, look at the add-ins listed there on Seans site. I'm sure someone will point you to a good solution.
RE: Assembly Cost Calculation in Inventor
http://tinyurl.com/pedpe