Inspection · Complete SOLIDWORKS learning path
Ballooned inspection reports in minutes, from your existing drawings.
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Four lessons to go from a 2D drawing or a 3D model to a complete inspection report. You create the project, extract the characteristics, number the balloons, then enter the measurements and publish the report.
4 lessons
12 videos
Beginner to intermediate
Free
What you will be able to do
✓Create a SOLIDWORKS Inspection project from a PDF drawing or a CAD file
✓Generate the Bill of Characteristics with its tolerances and quantities
✓Format and number the balloons in a logical inspection order
✓Enter measurements and publish an inspection report that the shop and the customer can read
Where to start
You are new to SOLIDWORKS Inspection: follow lessons 1 to 4 in order, each one builds on the project from the previous one. You already produce reports: go straight to lesson 3 for balloon numbering and lesson 4 for entering measurements.
The program
01Start an inspection projectAdd-in or standalone application, project creation, properties, imported files and navigation.▶ 4 videosBeginner▶What is SOLIDWORKS Inspection?▶Creating a New Project and Adding Project Properties▶Working with Imported File Types▶View Manipulation Tools→02Extract the characteristicsBill of Characteristics, OCR extraction of notes, dimensions and tolerance control frames, default tolerances and quantities.▶ 4 videosBeginner▶Generating a Bill of Characteristics▶Extracting Notes, Dimensions, and GD&T Control Frames▶Working with Tolerances▶Extracting and Changing Quantities→03Balloons and numberingBalloon shape, color and text, prefixes, templates, sequences and renumbering.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Adding Balloons and Editing Balloon Properties▶Balloon Sequencing and Order→04Measurements and reportsEntering measurements, color codes for in or out of tolerance, publishing to 2D PDF, 3D PDF, eDrawings and Excel.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Entering Measurement Data▶Publishing to 2D PDFs, 3D PDFs, First Article Inspection Reports, and Other File Types→To go further, Dassault Systèmes also offers the learning paths SOLIDWORKS Inspection (on MySolidWorks).
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