I’ve also found Excel based BOMs slower on large Assemblies.
You would be best to use the standard SolidWorks BOM and manually add in equations (which has its limitations also).

Maybe the new Costing tool in 2012 will be expanded in the next year to include costs for Weldments instead of just for Sheet Metal and Machined parts.

If so is there a “property code” for the Cut List Name???

and finally, Is there a way to use the detailed numbering in an excel based BOM???

Thanks for your wonderful help

At this stage, you might have to take a screenshot image of each item and manually add the images in beside each row in a SW BOM in the Drawing.

You can indeed insert the grand total row, however it requires a manual step. Once you insert the Excel BOM and its on the drawing, you need to right-click on the BOM and go “Edit”. You then need to add in a row manually, and insert the cell =sum(B2:B10).

There are some caveats:
If you add a second part, the total quantity won’t fully update until you go Edit on the BOM and open the embedded Excel Window.
If you add a new part, the row you added will stay, and the new part will be listed in a new row below.
With a little workarounds could be gotten. I.E. add a row at the very top, and show the Total Quantity there.

Also, there is an excellent SolidWorks Screencast on using Microsoft Excel: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/DemoLibrary/tipsforengineers.htm

Typically you have to insert a “Weldment Cut List” to get the “cut length” to appear in a BOM. If you don’t have a weldment part, you won’t see the option for a Weldment Cut List in a Drawing.

In SolidWorks 2008, a extra option appeared when creating a SolidWorks based Bill of Materials. This extra option was “Detailed Cut List”.
If you want your Weldments and Cut Lengths to appear in a BOM, then you must:
A. Have SolidWorks 2008 or later.
B. Have used a Weldment feature in at least one part (and see the Cut-List in the part design tree, and right-click and go “update”)
C. In the Drawing -> Insert -> Tables -> Bill of Materials, choose “Indented” and select the tick box “Detailed Cut List”.
D. If you do not see a “Length” column, hover the mouse over the BOM, right-click on the “A” column header, and go Insert -> Column Right. In the drop-down choose Custom Property, and in the second drop-down choose “Length”.

Hope this helps.

What should be problem???

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Although I could be wrong, from testing this in SW, and looking at the SolidWorks Knowledge Base, reading “Solution Id: S-026416″, it appears that its not possible to have an Excel BOM show multiple QTY / Quantity columns for multiple configurations. If the configuration of the Assembly, in which the Excel BOM is based on, is changed, then the BOM’s single QTY column will reflect the current active configuration showing.

You could insert 2 Excel BOMs (in SW2009), 1 Excel BOM for each configuration, and go that route.