Re: Calculating total costs in a BOM

no need to export it--just use the Excel BOM inside SW

"John H" <john.harland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'd like to get a BOM to show the cost of an assembly.
I was hoping to be able to add a "unit cost" custom property to the
parts/sub-assys that comprise the assembly, have another BOM column where
I multiply this value by the item quantity to give total item cost, and
then (hopefully) total up this column to give the cost of the assembly.

The "unit cost" bit I can manage, but not the rest.
Obviously this can be done if I export a vanilla BOM to Excel and
manipulate the values there, but this will not update as the design
progresses.

Am I asking for the impossible?
I used to use Radan Radraft in my last job ( a truly awful 2D drafting
package) and it could do this.

Regards,
John H



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