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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
fishbowl solutions also has software that will do this for Pro/E drawings.
InspectionXpert from Extensible CAD Technologies also has a solution.
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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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.
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