From time to time users bring this subject up with no real answer from Mcneel. For me the best improvement Rhino 6 could offer is a real functioning Bill of Materials that works in excel, that is part of and incorporated into the layouts. I am positive that other users would at least find this fea…

That would be a good project for a third-party developer. It isn’t a great one for us to do ourselves. I seem to recall there are some related tools and ways to do this through Grasshopper, but I’ve never done it myself.

Peter’s Tools https://wiki.mcneel.com/people/peterharris

I can’t wait for PeterTools V6. We need to wait until the SDK to be finished before we start bugging @phcreates , right? G

It’s on my plate - not Peter’s fault… I am slowly getting there in py. BOM is a bit messy to translate, but most are done or in V6 now (Trim > Line, to be specific) Peter recentty reminded me to get on it… -Pascal

Again no real answer from McNeel…The third party developer could charge as much as a single Rhino seat costs and I bet sales would be great. Personally If I knew script at all I would be working on a BOM plug in that creates a real BOM that is part of layouts and is linked to and updated by the ass…

Per John Brock “That would be a good project for a third-party developer. It isn’t a great one for us to do ourselves. I seem to recall there are some related tools and ways to do this through Grasshopper, but I’ve never done it myself.” Hence the response, Granted a little long in coming but …

Hi, I don’t know if it will perfectly match your needs because there are many ways to create a BoM, but we released a Rhino plugin for this: [image] Wish For Rhino 6: BOM Generator Rhino for Windows Hi, you might be interested in our plugin Marine Weight Schedule, which ge…

[image] Peter's Tools A variety of tools including bill of materials tools, a project timer, an archiving tool, and more. Free toolbox with BOM creating capabilities that was in the conversation above

altamiro.aj I have not used Peters tools in a while, but it looks like there may be some updates and Ill reinstall and give it a try again. Matthieu Arnold Thanks, Ill give Marine weight schedule a try as well Thanks

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DavidRutten (David Rutten) January 5, 2017, 3:09pm 8

Did you see Pascals most recent response? Sounds like he’s working on it.

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