Training Course Overview
Learn the basics of working with SOLIDWORKS Inspection software to automate the process of working with inspection documents. In this course, you will work with both the add-in and standalone versions of the product.
The focus of this course is on the fundamental skills and concepts central to the successful use of the SOLIDWORKS Inspection software.
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Types of documents featured in the SOLIDWORKS Inspection course
Requirements & Benefits
Understand the course requirements and the skills you will acquire after completing the course
"Just an estimate but knowledge gained from the SOLIDWORKS Inspection course has probably reduced the time to create spreadsheets by at least 50%. That is on top of the savings by using the inspection software."
— Greg Roth, Harvan Manufacturing Ltd.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Lessons
The following lessons are included in the course
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
- Characteristic tree
- Characteristic properties
- Balloon settings
- Reorder balloons
- Multiple characteristic instances
- Multi-line notes
- Export inspection data
- Design revision
- Manual ballooning
- Exercise 1: Balloon characteristics
- Exercise 2: Publish reports and export project
Lesson 2: Standalone Application
- Overview
- User interface
- Shortcut keys
- Case study: Inspection project
- Inspection project
- Project template
- Project properties
- Custom properties
- Save options
- Unit/tolerance options
- Ballooning options
- Extracting Characteristics
- Characteristic manager
- Hide and show captures
- GDT builder
- General characteristic tools
- Validating characteristics
- Table manager
- Bill of material
- Specifications
- Bill of characteristics
- Managing bill of characteristics
- Grids
- Multiple drawings
- Publishing reports
- Drawing revisions
- Exercise 3: Balloon dimensions
- Exercise 4: Balloon notes
- Exercise 5: 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
- Colour coded characteristics
- Multiple measurements
- Bonus tolerance
- Publishing reports with inspection results
- CMM data import
- Case Study: Import CMM data
- Exercise 6: Measurements input
- Exercise 7: CMM import
Appendix A: Inspection Report Templates
- Inspection report templates
- Template editor
- Report formatting
- Tokens
- Excel conditional formatting
- Footer row
Appendix B: OCR Editor
- OCR Overview
- OCR Dictionary font
- OCR Filters
- OCR Editor
- OCR Editor user interface
Appendix C: Understanding Regular Expressions
- Regular expressions
Appendix D: Glossary of Quality Terms
- Terminology
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