Hello,
I'm working in a small company, and I would have some questions to know how we should improve our CAO system.
We are on SW 2017 standard, with no PDM.
Here the thing : we works largely with the weldment module. Our parts are almost all created with it.
The first thing hard for us today : we have to export every body of the parts separately for our subcontractor.AND we have to create a .dxf, and a pdf for each of those. Until now, we export manually each body, and then transform it to a metal sheet, then flatenize, then create a drawing sheet, then export it in pdf. It is a looong journey for some parts, because we can go up to 60 bodies like this.
Second thing : in our assemblies, we have sub assemblies, monobody parts, and multibody parts. Some times sub-sub-assemblies. Actually, it's a multi level assembly.
For now, we create our BOM with a drawing sheets. We use the decompose function de reach the lower-level BOM, with ONLY the lower-level bodies and monobody pieces.
It is also a really annoying task, but we also know that there are loads of bugs with the decompose function, which doesn't seems to correctly assign quantites for each component. We've tested it a lot and we are absolutely certain that it is due to bugs (I could send you a bug assembly if you want).
Well :
My question is : what should we do to improve our workflow ? We can pay for it, but what would be the best solution ? We've thought of PDM which seems to allow us to automate the exports of components and to create BOM without drawing sheets.
We also saw some addons to SW, but what is the capacity of those ?
Thank you
I'm working in a small company, and I would have some questions to know how we should improve our CAO system.
We are on SW 2017 standard, with no PDM.
Here the thing : we works largely with the weldment module. Our parts are almost all created with it.
The first thing hard for us today : we have to export every body of the parts separately for our subcontractor.AND we have to create a .dxf, and a pdf for each of those. Until now, we export manually each body, and then transform it to a metal sheet, then flatenize, then create a drawing sheet, then export it in pdf. It is a looong journey for some parts, because we can go up to 60 bodies like this.
Second thing : in our assemblies, we have sub assemblies, monobody parts, and multibody parts. Some times sub-sub-assemblies. Actually, it's a multi level assembly.
For now, we create our BOM with a drawing sheets. We use the decompose function de reach the lower-level BOM, with ONLY the lower-level bodies and monobody pieces.
It is also a really annoying task, but we also know that there are loads of bugs with the decompose function, which doesn't seems to correctly assign quantites for each component. We've tested it a lot and we are absolutely certain that it is due to bugs (I could send you a bug assembly if you want).
Well :
My question is : what should we do to improve our workflow ? We can pay for it, but what would be the best solution ? We've thought of PDM which seems to allow us to automate the exports of components and to create BOM without drawing sheets.
We also saw some addons to SW, but what is the capacity of those ?
Thank you