We are starting to use AFX for designing frames built from standard aluminium profiles.
We use Windchill and don't want to have all the separate profile lengths as their own CAD models and WTParts in there so we are planning to embed all the profiles created by AFX to the frame assembly. But we would like to get the different used profiles and their total lengths to Windchill.
So I was planning to start using Bulk items in Creo for the profiles and associating them to the profile material items in Windchill. That way we would have the Windchill BOM of the frame to only include the needed profiles and their total lengths:
But it's really laborous and error prone to measure the profiles one by one and t
I can see that AFX has that information stored somewhere, because the BOM tables created by AFX can tell the used profiles and their total material needs.
Can that information be accessed somehow and linked to the quantity parameter of the bulk items? That way we could automate the total profile material needs calculation and wouldn't have to rely on the designer remembering to update the bulk item quantities when the frame dimensions are changed.
