myCADtools SmartBom - Manage your bills of materials like never before!

After completing a CAD project, you want to order your parts. But how can you easily manage the different parts (welded parts, sheet metal, etc.)? You want to sort them by type so you can easily send them to different suppliers. In addition, you want to separate turned parts from milled parts. Do you now have to sort all of this manually? Couldn’t there be a more convenient way?

Do these questions sound familiar when working on a project? In SOLIDWORKS, this cannot be automated by default, which results in a lot of repetitive work.

Avoid repetitive tasks

Sorting and organizing the parts list takes a lot of time and is very prone to errors; things can easily be overlooked. Wouldn't it be nice not to have to do this work yourself anymore?

In myCADtools, SmartBom can solve this problem for you. With its configurable conditions, SmartBom makes it very easy to organize a parts list.

Using the standard feature (1) in SmartBom, simply select the active SOLIDWORKS document (2):

Using a number of options in the "Project Management" tab, you can specify the criteria a component must meet to be included in a specific parts list. Below, we have specified that only parts that appear in a bill of materials containing all hardware parts (“Hardware”) will be included:

In the conditions (Conditions), you define rules:

By selecting a condition, you can specify which rules will apply (1). You can then drag and drop that condition (with the rule applied) into the "Conditions" folder (2). You can apply the other rules in the same way.

After applying the settings ("Apply"), the various bills of materials are generated.

The various parts lists are displayed as tabs:

The bill of materials can be exported to a .txt, Excel, or .xml file, or to a SOLIDWORKS drawing:

Thanks to automation, this tedious task is taken off your hands, and you can focus on your regular work again.

Here is a list of other benefits: