Start making sense of the properties and data which your company needs in the Bill of Materials. Join OpenBOM Director of User Experience Steve Hess as he examines the challenges of uniting CAD/Product structure, Costs and Vendors, and final assembly requirements into a single sensible BOM.
12. In summary...
1. Create OpenBOM Account & install the OpenBOM addin to my CAD
2. Setting-> Templates and choose properties to bring to the Catalog
a. Part Number is mandatory, I could add Material or ??
3. Setting-> Templates and choose properties to bring to the BOM
a. Part Number is mandatory
b. Generally keep this short Part Number alone is enough to get started.
4. Click->Create/Update Catalog
a. Add Cost, Bin Location, other business properties to Catalog
5. Click Create/Update BOM
a. “Parts and Catalog” to assign Catalog
b. Set BOM to Catalog link to “Part Number”
6. Boom! Done.
7. Use Create/Update buttons to capture future CAD changes