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SOLIDWORKS Inspection Course Overview

The SOLIDWORKS Inspection course is designed to introduce participants to the basics of using SOLIDWORKS Inspection automation software. This software is pivotal for creating ballooned drawings and inspection documents efficiently. Throughout the course, participants will gain hands-on experience with both the add-in and standalone versions of SOLIDWORKS Inspection.

SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a First Article Inspection (FAI) tool that streamlines and automates the process of generating ballooned inspection drawings and quality inspection reports, such as AS9102 and PPAP. It consists of a standalone application and a SOLIDWORKS add-in, allowing users to work with legacy data, whether they are SOLIDWORKS files, PDFs, or TIFFs.

The Professional version of SOLIDWORKS Inspection further enhances these capabilities by offering multiple methods for entering measured values directly into the project, thereby simplifying part inspection. Users can manually enter each characteristic value, use a digital caliper, or import results from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM).

Skills Learned:

  • Basics of SOLIDWORKS Inspection for creating ballooned drawings and inspection documents.
  • Working with both the add-in and standalone versions of SOLIDWORKS Inspection.
  • Simplifying the creation of quality inspection reports with automation tools.
  • Utilizing SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional for advanced data entry and part inspection.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Training

Course Duration

1.5 Days  (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Course

Mechanical Design experience

Experience with the Windows operating system

Onsite Training

Course Examples

Auto Ballooning Drawings
Automatically & intelligently balloon drawings inside SOLIDWORKS
Version Comparisons
Compare versions of drawings for differences in dimensions & tolerances limiting unnecessary updates
Standalone Inspection
Work with SOLIDWORKS drawings, PDFs, or legacy image files like TIFF or JPG
CMM Import
Import CMM measurement data and rapidly generate pass/fail reports
First Article Inspection Reports
Import CMM measurement data and rapidly generate pass/fail reports
Optical Context Recognition (OCR)
Work with PDFs and legacy data and use the OCR to intelligently extract dimensions and tolerance to auto populate the bill of characteristics
Balloon 3D PDFs
Perform first article inspections on MBD 3D PDFs

SOLIDWORKS Inspection Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: Inspection Add-in

  • What is SOLIDWORKS Inspection?
    • Inspection Add-in
  • Inspection Project
    • Project Template
  • Case Study: Inspection Project
    • General Settings
    • Extraction Settings
    • Tolerance Settings
  • SOLIDWORKS Inspection Manager
    • Characteristics
    • Characteristic Properties
    • Balloon Settings
    • Reorder Balloons
    • Multiple Characteristic Instances
    • Multi-line Notes
  • Export Inspection Data
  • Design Revision
  • Manual Ballooning
    • Standalone Application
  • Working with 3D Document
  • Exercise 1: Balloon Characteristics
  • Exercise 2: Publish Reports and Export Project
  • Exercise 3: Extract and Export 3D Part

Lesson 2: Standalone Application

  • User Interface
    • Shortcut Keys
  • Case Study: Inspection Project
  • Inspection Project
    • Project Template
    • Project Properties
    • Save Options
    • Unit/Tolerance Options
    • Ballooning Options
  • Manual Extract
    • Characteristic Pane
    • Hide and Show Extracted Annotation
    • Auto Extract
    • GDT Builder
  • General Characteristic Tools
    • Validating Characteristics
  • Table Manager
    • Bill of Material
    • Specifications
    • Characteristics
  • Managing Characteristics
    • Reorder Balloons
  • Grids
  • Multiple Documents
  • Publishing Reports
  • Drawing Revisions
  • Exercise 4: Balloon Dimensions
  • Exercise 5: Balloon Notes
  • Exercise 6: Publish Ballooned Drawing and Inspection Report

Lesson 3: SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional

  • Overview
    • Measurements Input
    • CMM Data Import
  • Loading the Inspection Professional Add-in
  • Case Study: Measurements Input
  • Measurements Input
    • Measurement Entries
    • Color Coded Characteristics
    • Multiple Measurements
    • Bonus Tolerance
  • Publishing Reports With Inspection Results
  • CMM Data Import
  • Case Study: Import CMM Data
  • Exercise 7: Measurements Input
  • Exercise 8: CMM Import

SOLIDWORKS Inspection Course Schedule

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