I'll chime in here and just say that it depends...Don't know what you make,
but if you can determine routing hours from dimensions, it can't be super
complicated stuff requiring a ton of different operations. But I believe
that to answer your question, if you have all the dimensions you want in a
excel design table for the part, than yes, it could be as simple as
setting
up another spreadsheet to pull in the data/dimensions from the design
table
into your other spreadsheet. (Although I don't have anything set up for
this so I'm not sure if it actually would be pulling or pu****ng the data).
Ahh, sometimes it's good to have a planning department and a cost
estimator...but of course they're a pain in the arse too, but as I hate
that
part of the job, I'll put up with it as long as they do it.. ;)
IYM
"thestew" <stewhappens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:85910b1f-0338-4a7e-9b88-6c919098018b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sorry, I need to clarify the question a bit.
>
> The question is: Can you use dimensional values from the SolidWorks
> models to drive programs that can determine routing hours?
> Can it be as simple as linking an Excel spreadsheet or as complicated
> as feeding data to another program system??
> It's not embedding all the logic into the model so that it's smart
> enough to carry all that.
> And yeah. Ultimately we need to really just know the "COST" of the
> mother.
>
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