The questions before the install.

Download the installer from your purchase email and double-click it. It handles everything: copies IntelliBOM into Fusion’s add-in folder, registers the toolbar icon, sets up the palette. No paths to find, no ZIP to extract, no folders to drag.

Open Fusion after the installer finishes — the IntelliBOM toolbar icon is already there. Click it and start exporting.

No. The installer works entirely inside your own user account — you can install, update, and remove IntelliBOM without asking IT for local admin rights.

No. IntelliBOM lives inside Fusion’s own add-ins area and stays there. It doesn’t touch Fusion’s internal settings or its executable. Uninstalling is one menu option inside Fusion: Utilities → Scripts and Add-ins → IntelliBOM → Remove.

Fusion shows this dialog for any add-in that isn’t published through Autodesk’s App Store. It’s a standard Autodesk warning, not an IntelliBOM-specific issue. We’re in the process of publishing through the App Store — once complete, the dialog disappears. In the meantime, clicking Allow loads IntelliBOM normally.

Use the built-in BOM Settings → Export button inside the IntelliBOM palette — it saves everything (custom profiles, pinned favourites, vendor library, company profile, templates) into one backup file.

On the new computer, open IntelliBOM and choose BOM Settings → Import. Pick the backup file. Done — two clicks, no files to hunt for on disk.

$149 USD per seat per year. Single plan, single price. No feature tiers, no per-document add-ons.

24 hours from activation — the “free day.” Full feature access during the trial. No credit card required to start. No auto-enroll into a paid plan when the trial ends.

No. It’s tied to the Fusion 360 user account that activates it. Move IntelliBOM between your laptop, desktop, and workstation as often as you want — one seat follows one designer.

Yes — purchase one licence per designer. Team licensing (volume discount, central admin) is on the roadmap. Email us if you need 5+ seats today and we’ll arrange invoice billing.

A reminder lands in your email 30 days before the licence expires. Renewal is always opt-in — we never silently re-charge your card.

The free day is our refund policy. Try every document, every bundle, every export during the 24 hours. If IntelliBOM doesn’t save you time, don’t buy a seat. If a major bug blocks you after purchase and we can’t fix it inside 7 days, we refund.

No — and this is one of the quiet wins. You fill in material, stock, vendor, price, allowances, labor, and notes once, on the part itself. Fusion’s regular Save button preserves that information alongside the geometry.

Anywhere that part later appears — in a subassembly, in next quarter’s project, in a colleague’s design — the BOM data follows it automatically. You never re-type a material spec, a vendor price, or a kerf value for a part you’ve already configured. The library builds itself as you work.

XLSX, PDF, CSV for all 13 document types. XLSX bundles for the 4 multi-sheet packages. No image exports; thumbnails are embedded inside XLSX cells where appropriate.

As accurate as the inputs. IntelliBOM never guesses a material price or a labor rate — it reads what you entered per row. What it does give you is a deterministic cost: material = stock price ÷ parts per piece; infill-aware volume for additive parts; labor and machinery as separate axes; grand totals that reconcile exactly to the sum of the visible rows.

Yes — and this is unique to IntelliBOM. It’s the only Fusion BOM tool we know of that tracks manufacturing allowances (kerf, end trim, edge margin, support overhead) per material and per row, and rolls them into stock requirements before the purchase list prints.

For LINEAR stock (bar, pipe, tube): kerf per cut plus end trim per stock piece. For AREA stock (sheet, plate): edge margin plus inter-part kerf in the nested pack. For VOLUME stock: support structure overhead beyond infill. Set defaults per material in the library; override per row when a tool changes.

The result: your purchase quantity matches the shop’s actual consumption to the millimetre. No “ran out of material” mid-job because the BOM forgot about the 3 mm of wood every saw cut turns into dust.

Yes. Each additive row carries an infill percentage (0–100%) and a material density. Volume × infill × density gives the real extruded mass. The material cost is computed against the mass of plastic that actually leaves the spool, not the phantom solid in the CAD model.

First-Fit Decreasing Height (FFDH) — a deterministic 2D bin-packing algorithm. Parts are sorted largest-first, placed on shelves inside each sheet, and every sheet reports real utilisation %. You can override the stock sheet size per row and the nesting reflows.

Always, and at every level of nesting. Stock is grouped by material, profile, and dimensions, so ten plywood parts feed from one sheet in the PO. Quantities consolidate recursively across the entire assembly graph — a subassembly nested three levels down and also reused inside a sibling subassembly rolls up to one row at the correct combined quantity. That recursive multi-parent case is unique to IntelliBOM; other Fusion BOM tools either miss it or double-count.

Yes. The Vendor PO export (document 2A) generates one PDF per supplier with that vendor’s banner, product deep-links, stock quantities, subtotal, and an authorization block.

Fusion 360 January 2026 or later. Fusion updates itself automatically, so if your Fusion is current, you’re good. The installer will tell you if something needs updating before it proceeds.

Not yet. Windows 11 at launch. macOS support is on the roadmap — most of IntelliBOM is ready for Mac already, but a few small pieces are Windows-specific and need rewriting first. No promised date yet; we’ll announce it when it’s ready.

No known conflicts. IntelliBOM runs in its own palette, has its own toolbar icon, and keeps its data safely separated inside each Fusion design. It never modifies geometry and never touches other add-ins’ data.

Yes. Components that reference external Fusion files are treated as read-only — IntelliBOM never modifies the external file itself. You can still toggle the four BOM behaviour flags (exclude, show contents only, subcomponent breakdown, active vendor) on the referenced component from the parent assembly; those settings stay with the parent design, they don’t leak into the referenced file or affect how it shows up in its own project.

Inside a working session, yes — BOM compute, every export, the stock library, the vendor library, and templates all run locally on your machine with no internet traffic. An internet connection is needed at launch, when IntelliBOM confirms your licence status (same connection Fusion itself already requires to start).

Inside Fusion, use Help → Report IntelliBOM Bug. One click opens a pre-filled email with everything we need to diagnose it — version, settings, a snapshot of what happened. No log files to find, no paths to copy, no screenshots to take.

Replies typically land within one business day. The person reading your email is the person who will fix the bug.

Yes. Every document on the current roster came from a real production request. Tell us what your role exports today, what’s wrong with it, what you wish it said — if it’s derivable from the Fusion design tree, it can land in an update.

macOS parity. SolidWorks support via a .NET thin wrapper (then Inventor). Team licensing with volume discounts and central admin. A web-based exporter for non-Fusion teammates who need to read the same BOMs.

Your renewal price is locked for as long as you keep an active licence. Price rises apply only to new seats. Annual renewal at $149 today stays $149 at renewal tomorrow, even if the public list price moves.

Today no — IntelliBOM checks your licence every time you launch Fusion. That’s the same connection Fusion itself already needs at start-up, so if Fusion runs, IntelliBOM runs. Fully offline seats for regulated shops that don’t run Fusion online are on the roadmap but use a different licensing track. Email us if that’s a requirement for your team.