SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION
First Article & Inspection Documentation Software
What is SOLIDWORKS Inspection?
SOLIDWORKS Inspection automates the painstaking and often tedious design inspection process. The software enables you to automatically capture inspection dimensions already contained in the models and drawings that are critical to the design’s production. Generate characteristic reports, drawings with ballooned callouts, and workflows quickly and reliably—all delivered in an easy to understand format.
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SOLIDWORKS Inspection automates the painstaking and often tedious design inspection process. The software enables you to automatically capture inspection dimensions already contained in the models and drawings that are critical to the design’s production. Generate characteristic reports, drawings with ballooned callouts, and workflows quickly and reliably—all delivered in an easy to understand format.
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Inspection Reporting Made Easy
You can create industry-compliant inspection reports or use the powerful template editor to develop a report that matches your company’s needs. The flexibility in reporting allows you to compile multiple measurement methods into one report while seeing visual feedback on compliance status. Create inspection documents from SOLIDWORKS models and drawings or from any standard CAD system using standalone SOLIDWORKS Inspection. Export inspection reports to Microsoft Excel using standard templates.
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SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION
Advanced tools to help expedite first article and in-process inspection reports.
Custom Project Templates
SOLIDWORKS Inspection allows custom project templates to be pre-configured to utilize the model or drawing properties that are important to your organization’s needs. The built-in template editor guides the process of building robust report templates. The software can also work with a variety of drawing file types (not just PDF & SOLIDWORKS documents) in both the standalone and add-on versions of SOLIDWORKS Inspection.
Automate Data Entry
Set the parameters only once in SOLIDWORKS Inspection’s templates to follow company or industry standards. Each time the custom template is used, the data automatically populates in the correct location, increasing accuracy and reducing the time it takes to train machine operators and inspectors.
Balloon Inspection Dimensions
Automatically balloon inspection dimensions and capture characteristic features with a few clicks. The data is pulled from the product and manufacturing information (PMI) on the drawing or model. Tasks that may have taken days using Excel to copy and paste data are now reduced to a few minutes—freeing important resources to focus on more critical tasks.
Quality Reports Made Easy
Most people don’t get into engineering, manufacturing, or quality because they like building reports of characteristics and measurements. With SOLIDWORKS Inspection, both the standalone and plugin version does its job so well that it makes working with this type of technology fun. What is better than getting a quality job done in a timely manner?
Frequently Asked Questions
SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION Features
Fast & Accurate Quality Documents
SOLIDWORKS Inspection provides the tools to quickly produce ballooned drawings, first article, and in-process characteristic reports. Models and drawings typically use an abundance of dimensions, notes, symbols, and frames that depict the importance of features during production. SOLIDWORKS Inspection software understands how to interpret each feature and can organize them into quality reports. Using templates that meet your needs, the software builds reports and ballooned drawings in minutes. Hours can literally be saved on each part number leading to more efficient workflow, reduced costs, and improved communication between engineering and production departments. Couple Inspection with SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model-based definition) software and the time savings get even better.
Works Seamlessly with Many File Types
It’s common to share design information in a PDF or TIFF file of drawings and models. SOLIDWORKS Inspection also recognizes the embedded product manufacturing information (PMI) data in STEP AP 242, PRT, ASM, and DRW file formats. There’s support for CATIA’s CATPart, CATProduct, CATDrawing, and 3DXML. DXF & DWG drawings can be added to the projects, too. Once you extract the needed characteristics from these files, the data can be compiled into reports that can be saved as Excel (XLS), CSV, or XML.
Consolidate Reports
Some products require numerous measurement methods to completely verify compliance. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional’s capability to gather input from manual entry, digital devices, or CMMs makes it a great tool to quickly collect data all into one place. The measurement input cells can be set to color-code to highlight features that are compliant in a pass/marginal/fail scale. The captured area of the characteristic will match the color-coding of the cell making it easy to see measurements that may be non-compliant. All data entered in these cells can be displayed in the report export along with its red, yellow, or green (default) coloring scheme.
Build Report Templates
Combine the power of Excel spreadsheets with the data of SOLIDWORKS Inspection projects to build great reports. The template editor allows you to edit one of the included templates, build your own from scratch, or convert one of your existing forms. Data is segmented into project properties, characteristic features, bill of material fields, measurement values, specification details, and document properties. Each of these can be embedded into the Excel templates at the appropriate places in your forms. All formatting of the cells, borders, fonts, and justifications can be set using commonly known Excel tools. Formulas can be derived and react to the data as its programmatically placed from the SOLIDWORKS Inspection project data.
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Compare SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION
STANDARD
Professional
Create Inspection Reports
Optical Character Recognition
PDF Drawing Comparison and 2D/3D Revision Management
Quality Sampling Plans
Export Options
Automatic Ballooning
Customize Inspection Reports
File Management
Enter and Import Measurements
Highlight Critical Dimensions
SOLIDWORKS Part/Assembly File Support
2D/3D CAD File Support
Inspection Measurements
Graphical Pass/Fail Status
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