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dbower210-Marble
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October 13, 2010
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Inspection number attached to Dimensions (or Inspection table)

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I have been requested to start attaching a unique identifying number to each dimension for inspection purposes. Is there a way to automatically do this?

An alternative would be to extract all the dimension information into an excel spreadsheet for use as an inspection chart. Not sure how to accomplish this. Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David


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bfrandsen10-Marble
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October 14, 2010
David,
we use PE-INSPECT from Software Factory for just that.

Regards,
Bjarne



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I have been requested to start attaching a unique identifying number to
each dimension for inspection purposes. Is there a way to automatically
do this?

An alternative would be to extract all the dimension information into an
excel spreadsheet for use as an inspection chart. Not sure how to
accomplish this. Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
David

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mdebower18-Opal
18-Opal
October 14, 2010

fishbowl solutions also has software that will do this for Pro/E drawings.

http://www.fishbowlsolutions.com/PTCSolutions/FishbowlPTCAutomationandIntegrationSolutions/SolutionsforProENGINEER/InspectionReportAutomation/fs_mkt_m_IRA_webcopy

InspectionXpert from Extensible CAD Technologies also has a solution.

http://www.inspectionxpert.com/

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HugoHermans12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 14, 2010
Hi Marc,

Do you have practical first hand experience with one of these? Or do
you know someone?

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Kindest regards,

Hugo Hermans

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mdebower18-Opal
18-Opal
October 14, 2010

Hello Hugo,

I do have some experience with both. Ievaluated the fishbowl software for our needs and it worked quite well.

We ended up purchasing a version of the InspectionXpert software from Extensible because we needed to deal with PDFs of drawings from outside the company, and not just Pro/E drawings.

Both work well, and output the results to an Excel file that can be used in the inspection process to record actuals.

-marc

In Reply to Hugo Hermans:

Hi Marc,

Do you have practical first hand experience with one of these? Or do
you know someone?

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Kindest regards,

Hugo Hermans

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NV Michel Van de Wiele
Michel Vandewielestraat 7
B-8510 Kortrijk (Marke) - Belgium
Tel : +32 56 243 211
Fax: +32 56 243 540
BTW BE 0405 450 595
RPR Kortrijk
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HugoHermans12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
October 14, 2010
As I understand, the drawings aren't edited, aren't touched, one way or
another. Is this correct?

I've been asked to find an alternative of our actual manual procedure,
adding index-numbers to a paper copy, as a starting point for the
inspection. This is time consuming, and the resulting paper copy has to
be scanned back in to be archived. Not the most optimal procedure in
the 21the century. Making abstraction of the index-numbers on the
drawings could help me to provide a solution as well.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Kindest regards,

Hugo Hermans

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NV Michel Van de Wiele
Michel Vandewielestraat 7
B-8510 Kortrijk (Marke) - Belgium
Tel : +32 56 243 211
Fax: +32 56 243 540
BTW BE 0405 450 595
RPR Kortrijk
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mdebower18-Opal
18-Opal
October 14, 2010

I remember one of the solutions that worked with the native Pro/E drawings put the inspection balloons on a layer on the drawing.

The solution that we chose, InspectionXpert First Article, uses PDFs and the software adds the balloons to the PDF.

We had a very similar situation in QA at our company, with a very ancient, manual system of marking up drawings and recording results on paper forms and scanning in for storage.

We purchased InspectionXpert First Article so that all the data is at least electronic and the chances for error are reduced. The spreadsheet handles all the math and calculates if the measured value is in or out of spec. Most of the people involved like the new software and electronic files rather than the scans or paper copies. We did run into quite a bit of resistance to the change because it was new and different. Handling the cultural change management portion of the project was much harder than finding a technical solution.

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mjenkins10-Marble
10-Marble
October 14, 2010

Why don't you just hit Info: Switch Dimensions and print out your drawing for the inspector.

This will number each dimension with d1 through d100 or however many features you have.

See attached.

In Reply to David Bower:

I have been requested to start attaching a unique identifying number to each dimension for inspection purposes. Is there a way to automatically do this?

An alternative would be to extract all the dimension information into an excel spreadsheet for use as an inspection chart. Not sure how to accomplish this. Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David



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kbrault11-Visitor
1-Visitor
October 14, 2010

Another option is you can save the drawing as a PDF (set the option to
"stroke all fonts" or
subsitute "true type fonts") then open each page of the PDF and select all
the text (highlight one
text line and hit A) , copy (C) and paste in Excel. You will get a list of
the text you copied. Some
minor cleanup will give you a list of dimensions.

Your inspectors could do that from the PDF themselves (if you are looking
for ways to push
work onto others ... 😉 ...)

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