SOLIDWORKS BOM
Best practices to manage and utilize your SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)
Importing SolidWorks Files with Textures in Composer [Video]
If you have been working with SolidWorks Composer you will notice that when you import a file you lose any textures that the SolidWorks files might have had. You still get all the colouring though. There is an easy way to get SolidWorks files into SolidWorks Composer with textures. That is to save your file as a 3D XML file. If you do a Save As in SolidWorks you will see this as an option. The Composer can import this and will keep the assembly file structure. This is a great workaround if you are making marketing material. The only drawback is you lose the meta data so this file type is no good for creating BOMs. Watch this video to see a step-by-step demonstration of this workflow:
Translating Parts from Inventor into SolidWorks while maintaining their Features
A quick update to this post as our good friends at SolidWorks were kind enough to point out that I had not given the Inventor View Product it’s due. To that end I thought I should clear up some more of the hearsay and rumor surrounding translating files from Autodesk’s Inventor Product. Translation of individual part files from Inventor: Installation of the Inventor View product will only be sufficient for translation if you are looking to obtain Solid Bodies void of any feature data within SolidWorks. If you are attempting to retain the parametric features of your model you will need to install the latest release of Inventor (as compared to your installed release of SolidWorks). The method to accomplish the full translation is to:…
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You’ve spent time creating your Custom SOLIDWORKS Templates just the way you like them. The question is where did you save them? Can you easily find them if you ever need to change computers or share them with a coworker? Finding the default location With a…
EPDM – Creating a Reference between a SolidWorks File and Another File Type
If you ever needed to link a non-SolidWorks file (Excel, Word, PDF…) to a SolidWorks file, then here’s the steps to accomplish this: Right-click the parent file and select Check Out. Select the file(s) to reference. Right-click the file(s) and select Copy. Right-click the parent file and select Paste as Reference. In the Create File References dialog box, enable these options as needed: Add Reference, creates a reference to the file. Show in Bill of Materials, includes the file in the parent file BOM. Click OK. 6. Check-in the parent file(s) Now the non-SolidWorks file will appear under the “Contains” tab of the local vault view when the SolidWorks file is selected.
In this video I am going to show you how to change BOM colours using SOLIDWORKS Composer 2012x.
The SOLIDWORKS Indented BOM style will list all subassemblies as an item, along with all components of the subassembly. If you have a subassembly that should only list the parts but keep all other subassemblies as indented, you can dissolve subassemblies (or promote components). Here are 2…
The BOM Description column picks up the Description property from your models. But if you are finding that modifying the property is not updating the BOM, there is a good chance you have other Descriptions that are overriding the value. Here is the hierarchy of the Description…
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