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August 18, 2016
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Using excel in drawing

  • August 18, 2016
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I have an excel (.xlsx) file with a BOM of an assembly. I wanted to know if it was possible to import that into a drawing directly from excel without having to make the individual cells or having to type all the information in.


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Best answer by RonSt.Pierre

Layout tab > select object

select the object type

begs to be asked....

why not use a table with a repeat region?

this will generate a BOM of the assembly.

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12-Amethyst
August 18, 2016

Layout tab > select object

select the object type

begs to be asked....

why not use a table with a repeat region?

this will generate a BOM of the assembly.

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1-Visitor
August 18, 2016

The problem is that the BOM is being exported from another program into excel, but we need it in Creo as a drawing. We don't have an assembly of it with models and such therefor a parametric table cannot be made, and we were trying to minimize the work so that we didn't have to type it all in.

But your answer is exactly what we needed. I knew there was an easy way, I just didn't know where it was. Thanks!

12-Amethyst
August 18, 2016

well, I got my answer....

Glad to be of help

17-Peridot
August 19, 2016

You can directly import excel into Creo drawing. Follow the below steps:

1. Save the Excel file as .csv format.

2. In Creo Drawing, from the Table tab select Table from File and select the .cvs format that you saved and place the table on your drawing.