Lester
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08.02.2005 13:10:41
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BOM Generation
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Looking to leech as much free information as I can here. We're a smallish Canadian shop using KC3 and XMD and I'm looking for a way to improve our BOM's. Currently XMD can generate a BOM in a somewhat pretty graphical format but that doesn't allow me to copy individual lines from it and paste those into an excel workbook. We can generate the BOM as an Excel file, but it's really not very pretty, just colums, with no headings, which makes it somewhat difficult for purchasing to interpret.
I'm just the IT contact here, not the designer, so my knowledge of KC3 is pretty limited. What I'd like to know is if this Excel sheet that KC3 and XMD generate is done from a template that I can modify (I haven't been able to find one), or if someone out there has created a really nice BOM that they'd be willing to share, or if anyone knows of a nice BOM generator that works with KC3.
Les Kerekes
Lamko Tool & Mold Inc.
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08.02.2005 13:13:33
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BOM Generator
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OK, so that first message was blank, apparently this site doesn't like me using Mozilla. Gotta say, I don't like that because I hate IE, and I especially hate being limited to using IE. Or maybe it's just a setting on my end. Anyway, on to the post:
Looking to leech as much free information as I can here. We're a smallish Canadian shop using KC3 and XMD and I'm looking for a way to improve our BOM's. Currently XMD can generate a BOM in a somewhat pretty graphical format but that doesn't allow me to copy individual lines from it and paste those into an excel workbook. We can generate the BOM as an Excel file, but it's really not very pretty, just colums, with no headings, which makes it somewhat difficult for purchasing to interpret.
I'm just the IT contact here, not the designer, so my knowledge of KC3 is pretty limited. What I'd like to know is if this Excel sheet that KC3 and XMD generate is done from a template that I can modify (I haven't been able to find one), or if someone out there has created a really nice BOM that they'd be willing to share, or if anyone knows of a nice BOM generator that works with KC3.
Les Kerekes
Lamko Tool & Mold Inc.
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08.03.2005 08:21:56
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XMD Mold Design software
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It's been adapted to work with KC3, but the KC4 version has yet to be released. I don't know much about the software, beyond the fact that it reduces our design time significantly. Prolly dozens of hours on a single job, hundreds of hours a year. The only problem we have with XMD is the time between a new release of KC and the compatible version of XMD. There's been several months between the two, our designers wont use one without the other.
I'm not a designer, just the IT Guy here.
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02.06.2005 13:42:22
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XMD Mold Design software
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The wait time for for XMD for KC3 was longer than 4, regardless, I'm just an impatient person, and a little impetuouse at times. I get a new version of something and I just have to try it. Having to wait, even just one week, for companion software, makes me twitchy.
While we're on the subject of complainets, I like the fact that our supplier will ship us one copy of XMD for our 9 users, but feels the need to ship us 9 copies of Key Creator. I only need one. When I asked about this once, long ago, I was told that many users prefer multiple copies. Can't imagine why, though.
stepping off the soapbox now
les
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