New BOM add-in

[macmanpb]

Hi,

sometimes i wish a better BOM generator. And the last time i missed that allot.

So fusion has a good API and i give me a try to dive in and write a CSV-BOM add-in.

The add-in provides a dialog with several options to help you to get what you want:

• Only selected components (on|off)
• Include bounding box dimensions (on|off)
• Include volume (on|off)
• Exclude "_" prefixed components (on|off)
• Exclude components without bodies (on|off)
• Exclude linked components (on|off)
• Ignore components visible state (on|off)

Everything missed? Contact me and i will try to add. 😉

I have test it on a MAC and the CSV with the Apple Numbers App.

It would be nice to have a response from Win users and Excel 🙂

[mal_rixon]

A great little add-inn.  Thanks very much.  One problem I found and it is not with the CSV-BOM plugin but is  that Fusion decides on dimensions by axis.  In that Length is always X axis and Z is always height.  I wrote a small macro for excel to swap the smallest dimension to the height dimension and the largest dimension to the length dimension.  I am fairly new to fusion and their may be another way to do this but if anyone is interested here is the macro.  I wrote this so I can import to CutlistPlus fx.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I added the CSV-BOM add-in to Fusion360 and when trying to create BOM, I get this error: 

Any ideas whats wrong?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I contacted the author and got very quick reply. The problem was that I had my decimal point display set as commas and not as points in the Fusion 360 preferences. Changed it to points and it works! There is going to be a fix for this in the next version. 

[TrippyLighting]

I kudos your post and marked it as the solution. It is an excellent example of what it means to contribute to the community

[oleg]

Did you try OpenBOM for Fusion360? It can help to solve some BOM Management problems. The latest version of OpenBOM for Fusion supports component dimensions and useful for cutlists and similar functions. 

Check more here - http://openbom.com or go directly to app store link

https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=4600054964458767106