Assembly/BOM needs....
Assembly/BOM needs....
(OP)
We manufacture pool enclosures and the parts are all designed by us. During our R&D phase, we did all of our design and assembly/BOM requirements using Autocad. Well, now we are done with designing parts and just need to start mass producing our buildings. The span changes the sizes of our trim and and glazing and structural members. We need to automate the assembly and BOM requirements, but i have no experience with 3D. Which program is the strongest at assembly/BOM?
Let me know if you need more information to help me go in the right direction. The busier we get, the more chance of making human errors with the BOM because right now we do that manually by looking at the drawing and counting. Then that count gets transferred to the spreadsheet which gets sent to the shop floor for production.
Thanks in advance.
Cihan
Let me know if you need more information to help me go in the right direction. The busier we get, the more chance of making human errors with the BOM because right now we do that manually by looking at the drawing and counting. Then that count gets transferred to the spreadsheet which gets sent to the shop floor for production.
Thanks in advance.
Cihan






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In actual fact, it just got stronger because with the 2009 release you can now create BOM's in assembly and multibody part files without having to create a drawing first.
Full information on page 70 of this document:
http:/
Whilst beating the Solidworks drum, it includes features that allow easy importation, malipulation and upgrading to 3D of 2D AutoCAD files. In plain English, changing the 2D to 3D is a breeze if you know what you are doing.
If you need variations of a particular design, it has features that help with that also.
If you need any in depth help, by all means contact me. My details are on my profile.
Regards
WP
www.whitney-paine.com
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There will be a substantial unlearning/relearning curve involved for all of them if this is your first foray into the 3D world.
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Regards
WP
www.whitney-paine.com
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Regards
WP
www.whitney-paine.com
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Solidworks generates the BOM from the assembly file, your views come for free and balloon references are correct and, being a parametric modeller, changes to the assembly model will automatically update all views, balloon references, quantities and descriptions.
You are less likely to have drawing errors using a 3D modeller like Solidworks.
We moved away from designing in ACAD in 2001 to SW and estimate an improvement of up to 30% efficiency for CAD output. ACAD is used now only to generate wiring diagrams and artworks for silk screens.
Eddy
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Thanks for your response. It helps me in making a choice. I think you understood that what i am looking for is a robust program that can handle up to 10,000 parts (not all unique) with no struggles and still provide the BOM list for manufacturing.
I just want to make sure that i am not overlooking perhaps a different software that is more suited towards assembly and BOM. It seems as though all of the literature on Solidworks and Inventor stress "part design" and the assembly/bom ability of the software is not the main focus.
Thanks again!
Cihan
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
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Cihan
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