Throughout the whole product life cycle, enterprises often need to continuously produce and maintain different forms and accurate consistency of BOM information and exploded view assembly drawings, in order to promote effective communication and collaboration between design and production, procurement and sales departments and suppliers. Using the basic functions provided by existing PTC Creo CAD systems and traditional manual methods to create such detailed Excel BOMs table (including thumbnails, overall dimensions, materials, weights, etc. synchronized with CAD design files) and interrelated exploded view 3D/2D assembly drawings are very time-consuming and full of manual input errors. Nicada BOM-Expert can automatically create thumbnails, bounding box borders, measurement of bounding box dimensions, weights and other parameters of all parts directly from Creo's assembly model in less than 1 minute and outputs them to a customizable Excel BOM table. In addition, it can intelligently update the exploded view distance of each part in an assembly based on a user-defined assembly order and exploded view distance settings, and automatically complete a complex 3D/2D exploded view drawing in a matter of minutes.
Benefits of using Nicada BOM-Expert:
Largely reduce time and cost in production of thumbnail Excel BOM tables and 3D/2D exploded view drawings (from days to minutes)
Eliminate human input errors
Reduce the cost of errors
Directly integrate with CAD to provide real-time visualized Excel BOM tables and interconnected 3D/2D exploded view drawings