SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION

OBJECTIVE
For companies that create inspection documents, SOLIDWORKS® Inspection automates the ballooning of
engineering drawings and 3D files with Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI), minimizes the time
needed to record inspection measurements, and streamlines the creation of industry-standard inspection
reports by leveraging existing 2D and 3D CAD data.

OVERVIEW CAPABILITIES
Quality control and planning often involve the creation CAD Agnostic
of documents such as drawings with balloon callouts and
You can create your inspection documents regardless of
inspection reports. This time-consuming task is usually
your existing CAD system, using either the standalone
the responsibility of designers or quality inspectors. They
SOLIDWORKS Inspection application or the integrated
can spend hours every day manually creating all these
SOLIDWORKS Inspection add-in.
documents and ensuring the parts they designed are
manufactured according to specifications. Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a First Article Inspection (FAI) When working with a PDF or TIFF drawing, SOLIDWORKS
and in-process inspection solution that greatly simplifies Inspection uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to
and automates the reporting process. SOLIDWORKS read and identify the nominal dimension, plus and minus
Inspection is easy-to-use, integrated with SOLIDWORKS tolerances, and the type of dimension (such as diametric
CAD, and available as a standalone application to work or linear), helping to virtually eliminate manual input
with other CAD systems. Companies can easily deploy and reduce errors. It works with horizontal and vertical
it, train their quality department, and start to optimize dimensions, split dimensions, notes, hole callouts, finish
their inspection and quality processes. This saves time, symbols, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
lowers costs, and wins more business by eliminating the (GD&T) symbols.
bottlenecks in quality inspection and increasing throughput
in manufacturing. Revision Management
Avoid errors and quickly identify changes using SOLIDWORKS
BENEFITS Inspection advanced 2D & 3D comparison tools.
• Saves up to 90% of time performing inspections and
creating inspection documents. Customizable Inspection Reports
• Helps to create detailed reports in minutes. In just a few clicks, you can create industry-compliant
• Improves time-to-market. inspection reports (such as AS9102, PPAP, and ISO 13485)
• Eliminates errors and inconsistencies. or use the powerful template editor to develop a report that
• Supports a variety of 2D and 3D CAD data as well as PDF matches your company’s needs.
and TIFF files.
• Complies with industry standards.
• Quickens Return of Investment (ROI).
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard streamlines the creation of SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional extends SOLIDWORKS
inspection documentation. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard Inspection Standard’s capabilities by allowing users to almost
consists of a standalone application and an embedded automatically enter measured values into an inspection
SOLIDWORKS add-in that enables users to leverage their project. Each characteristic’s value can be entered manually,
legacy 2D data regardless of whether they have SOLIDWORKS with the use of a digital caliper or by importing Coordinate
Drawings files, PDF, TIFF, DXF, or DWG files. SOLIDWORKS Measuring Machine (CMM) results. Additionally, SOLIDWORKS
Inspection Standard is for designers, quality engineers, Inspection Professional also enables users to work directly
technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for creating with 3D CAD data, streamlining their workflows even more as
industry-standard inspection documents. part of a company-wide, drawing-free strategy.
With SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard, users can: SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional is for quality engineers,
technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for inspecting
• Use the standalone application or the SOLIDWORKS add-in
parts, recording measurements, and operating or programming
to quickly balloon and create inspection reports regardless
inspection equipment, including calipers, CMM, and optical
of the existing CAD system.
measuring devices.
• Work with 2D data such as SOLIDWORKS drawing files,

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PDF, TIFF, DXF or DWG files. With SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional, users can also:
• Automatically balloon inspection dimensions specified by • Use the standalone application or the SOLIDWORKS add-in
the designer or mechanical engineer. to quickly balloon and create inspection reports from 2D
• Create custom OCR dictionaries. and 3D CAD files, PDF, and TIFF files.
• Improve OCR readings using ExtractionXpert. • Enter measured values for each characteristic directly into
• Calculate the proportion of defects authorized using the project either manually or by using a digital caliper.
Acceptance Quality Limit (AQL) tables. • Import CMM results (PC-DMIS, Calypso, Faro CAM2, and
• Manually or automatically extract characteristics from others).
drawings. • Highlight dimensions in green, red, or yellow to instantly
• Extract multiple characteristics at once using Smart Extract. see which dimensions are in tolerance, out of tolerance, or
• Define and use multiple tolerance tables. marginally within tolerance based on the values entered.
• Customize balloon appearance using presets. • Automatically verify results.
• Instantly export finished ballooned drawings as PDFs. • Export color-coded ballooned drawings and inspection
• Export inspection reports to Microsoft® Excel® using reports to improve clarity.
standard templates. • Export ballooned 3D model as 3D PDF or eDrawings® file.
• Customize Excel templates using the template editor to
follow company or industry standards.
• Manage inspection projects and related documents using
SOLIDWORKS PDM.
• Export inspection data directly to quality systems such as
Verisurf, QualityXpert and Net-Inspect, and to databases
using CSV or XML output formats.

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