Aug 16, 2014 #1 dklarz Mechanical Joined Mar 31, 2005 Messages 89 Location US I have AutoCAD files that I open in Draftsight (I don't have an AutoCAD license at work). Can I export an assembly BOM from Draftsight to an Excel file? Thanks... Contractin' Dave Mechanical Design Engineer 25 years in the contracting world
I have AutoCAD files that I open in Draftsight (I don't have an AutoCAD license at work). Can I export an assembly BOM from Draftsight to an Excel file? Thanks... Contractin' Dave Mechanical Design Engineer 25 years in the contracting world
Sep 2, 2014 #2 felix7502 Mechanical Joined Mar 24, 2003 Messages 222 Location US Dave - If you have Acrobat X or XI you can make the drawing into a pdf and export the BOM to Excel. I tried it and it works. see http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-do-i-convert-just-part-of-a-pdf-file?trackingid=KPLFD.Otherwise I don't believe it can be exported directly. Sylvia Upvote 0 Downvote
Dave - If you have Acrobat X or XI you can make the drawing into a pdf and export the BOM to Excel. I tried it and it works. see http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-do-i-convert-just-part-of-a-pdf-file?trackingid=KPLFD.Otherwise I don't believe it can be exported directly. Sylvia