PS11: it's more of a "clue" about the type of BE, or the state of the BE,
but knowing if in a design office (where there is a risk of entering) they use "Automatic Nomenclatures" for ASMs or PRT-Const.Welded is very revealing!
(i.e. for ASM-Assembly / ASM-Welded Complex / PRT-Welded Construction)
namely that even some (not all) who have the SW+EPDM combo make bills of materials by hand...
I was fooled by this in previous companies, and this info is very revealing I think.
Nomenclature by hand also means entirely manual bubbling.
Some even go so far as not to put a bill of materials or bubbles in the CAD (because it is done by hand outside the CAD) and then during the assembly we discover things: there is the famous "ah I forgot this part... " or the "thin the quantity is not good on this article"
But be careful, a design office that still does auto bills of materials, doesn't mean that they use SW "with good practices" either, but at least for bills of materials (and auto bubbles) that's already what winning.
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The trick of manual bills of materials is not necessarily the work of the B.E. (or his manager), it is sometimes the fact that the CAD having arrived last, it had to adapt to existing tools (purchasing, ERP, etc.) and there was no will / (to put in) the means to integrate it;
It's clear that it's hellish, then nothing prevents you from getting an automatic bill of materials and sticking it into the system afterwards.
Yes, but there are also sometimes CAD users who prefer to continue to do the bills of materials by hand, because they "don't know how to do it too much in CAD"
EDIT: or that their entire CAD system is poorly configured (including the working files) which makes it impossible to use BOMs.
Knowing that we are in 2018, the beginning of 3D CAD 1995-2000, and the boom around 2000-2005
It's a bit old-fashioned as a principle, to want to continue working like in the 2000s, or even before...
EDIT: what's a bit strange is to sometimes come across cases like this, and that next to it its users say "good" or "solidworks CAD expert" (here, it makes me smile instead...)
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