SOLIDWORKS BOM

Best practices to manage and utilize your SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)

SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tips & Tricks On-Demand Webinar

SOLIDWORKS Drawings Tips

Are you familiar with all the different ways you can work with drawings in SOLIDWORKS? Watch our on-demand webinar to learn essential SOLIDWORKS drawing tips and tricks. In SOLIDWORKS, drawings are the main way we communicate our designs and take them from the design phase…

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Transforming Bill of Materials Management with SOLIDWORKS connected to the Cloud

SOLIDWORKS Product Release Engineer

Are you ready to transform the way you manage your SOLIDWORKS Bills of Materials (BOM) and improve productivity? A complete engineering definition of a finished product can consist of many different types of Bills of Materials. It can include logistical information, the engineering definition, and…

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How to Split and Merge a SOLIDWORKS BOM Table

Split SOLIDWORKS BOM

If you have a SOLIDWORKS assembly drawing with a lot components you may find that your BOM table is too large for the sheet. In this situation you can split the table into separate pieces and move them to another location on the sheet or…

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SOLIDWORKS Manage 2022 BOM Enhancements

SOLIDWORKS Manage Share BOM

SOLIDWORKS® Manage is an advanced data management system that extends the global file management and application integrations enabled by SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. SOLIDWORKS Manage is the key element in providing Distributed Data Management. With SOLIDWORKS Manage 2022 there are many new enhancements for the Bill…

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Working with a BOM in SOLIDWORKS Manage

Use SOLIDWORKS Manage BOM

I love SOLIDWORKS PDM and how it makes life easier for an engineer to do their job and keep their files in one secure location. With that said, I’ll admit that there are times when you just need more from PDM with regards to the Bill…

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Design to Manufacturing Bill of Materials (BOM) Production

Manufacturing Items Engineer

Watch the on-demand webinar below for an introduction to DELMIA® solutions, and producing Bill of Materials (BOM) from Design through Manufacturing: In this DELMIA on-demand webinar you will learn Leveraging the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE Works platform, and the Manufacturing Items Role allows a production engineer…

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How to hide and show a BOM in SOLIDWORKS Composer Animations

Maximum opacity-BOM shown

SOLIDWORKS Composer geometric actors or collaborative actors such as a BOM can be shown or hidden in an animation. If once the actor is hidden it will remain hidden throughout the animation and if we try to show the actor, it will be visible throughout…

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SOLIDWORKS PDM 2021 Bill of Materials Options

New in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2021, the Bill of Materials (BOM) Options set within SOLIDWORKS will be inherited by the Computed BOM in PDM: Learn what each of the three BOM options provide below: BOM Option: Show Will show the subassembly and all the child components…

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How to Exclude a Manufacturer Part from a SOLIDWORKS Electrical BOM

SOLIDWORKS Electrical BOM Exclude

Now in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2021, you can use the “Exclude from bill of materials” property in the Manufacturer part properties dialog box to show or hide components in a BOM. In previous releases there was not a simple option to exclude manufacturer parts from the…

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