Customize your bills of materials: Creating a bill of materials is an important step in the manufacturing process. Everyone has their own constraints and methods for extracting data. There isn’t really a standard in this area, so this tool gives you more options and makes it easier to adapt the product to your work methods.

The SmartBom tool is connected to PDM provided you have a myPDMtools license. This means you can select folders directly from a PDM vault.

From one or more assembly files, or one or more folders containing assembly files, you can create one or more bills of materials. These bills of materials can be grouped and defined within a “Bill of Materials Project,” which will display the lists of required components. The configuration of the bill of materials (or bills of materials) is performed in the “Bill of Materials Management” section.

The column settings for bills of materials can be customized.

You can apply conditions to the file(s) to retrieve only what is needed in your bill of materials.

When using SmartBom, you can configure certain options.



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General Interface:


Create a new project.

Opens an existing project.

Opens an existing project from the favorites folder.

Save a project.

Allows you to save as a project.

Save project and BOM template.

Allows you to change the font for the BOM text.

Export file list in CSV format for use with another tool (e.g. BatchConverter).

Export BOM in Text format.

Export BOM in Excel format.

Allows you to export the BOM in XML format.

Export BOM in Solidworks table format (.sldbomtbt).

Allows you to export the BOM in PDF format.

Favourites folder location options.



: Allows you to manually modify one or more properties once the button has been pressed.

  Search for a specific property in the BOM.

  Go to the next line containing your search.

Create a new table template.

Save your table model.