Use AI to generate BOMs from Drawings

One of the goals at Fulcrum currently is to increase the speed of users being able to add and edit BOM and Routings.  One of the ways that we’re doing that is to make importing BOMs from other systems and software more powerful.  

The first step we’re releasing to make that possible is import from PDF, you’ll now be able to drop a PDF or image of a drawing that contains BOM info into Fulcrum and we’ll use AI to parse the PDF looking for item and BOM information.

Some Tips for successful imports:

1. When adding a BOM table to the drawing, make sure the headers of the table are on top (not bottom up)
2. This currently works well for simple parts, a single page and a single Bill of Materials table.  Multi page documents will prefer to use the information on the first page, or possibly merge multiple tables together.
3. Keep the Quantity column to just a single number e.g “10” vs “10 piece” or “10mm”

This feature is currently not available for ITAR sites.