Every design change would be followed by a headsup notification of the cost change at subassembly and product level. It would be the responsibility of the design team to populate this field with a dollar value which takes into account material cost, manufacturing, and overheads to factory gate level, usually by weight. However everyone designs within certain cost constraints, so I don't see why this isn't a headline feature.Īt the very least it should be possible to have a customisable field associated with every material.

It is a procedure that in my experience many designers constantly try to avoid. To make a cost estimation one has to pull out a BOM from a drawing and save or pasted it into Excel then assign modifiers to the parameters to arrive at a total. It has for years puzzled me that neither Solidworks nor Inventor do this. Designers often make changes in design which might mean efficiencies or improvements in a subassembly but increase overall cost.

Costing estimation needs to be there right from the modelling environment.

Fusion 360 annual cost