Improved and Streamlined Inspection Workflows
Leverage the SOLIDWORKS add-in or the dedicated standalone application to create detailed inspection reports regardless of the workflow.
PDF/TIFF File Support
Create inspection projects directly from PDF or TIFF files.
DXF/DWG File Support
Create inspection projects directly from native DXF/DWG files.
SOLIDWORKS Drawing File Support
Quickly balloon and create inspection reports from SOLIDWORKS Drawings.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Easy to use selection windows recognize text in your inspection drawings automatically. SOLIDWORKS Inspection automatically recognizes dimension values, dimension types, and tolerance values using advanced optical recognition technology. This reduces errors and eliminates the need to develop your inspection reports by hand.
Automatic Ballooning
Automatically extract and balloon inspection dimensions from 2D and 3D CAD files, and specific PDF documents.
Create and Customize Inspection Reports
Manage your Bill of Characteristics (BOCs), change the ordering, edit the numbering, or group/ungroup characteristics. Customize the inspection bubble shapes and color, define presets or tolerance tables to standardize your inspection reports and requirements.
Ballooned Drawing Appearance
Customize the inspection bubble shapes, color, and size. Define presets and apply styles based on parameters such as criticity or inspection method. Adjust balloon's placement.
Drawing Revisions and Comparisons
Easily compare drawings, 2D or 3D CAD files' revisions in SOLIDWORKS Inspection. The comparison tools allow quality engineers to quickly investigate and update what has changed in the engineering design, and what is included in the inspection report with simple visual overlay tools. Place drawing revisions side by side for an understanding of how your inspection documents have changed.
Quality Sampling Plans
Include information in your inspection report for Acceptable Quality Limits (AQL) and Lot Size Sampling. Control your Quality Sampling Plans as you quickly build your inspection characteristics in SOLIDWORKS Inspection.
Quality Systems Integration
Export inspection data to quality systems and databases using CSV or XML output formats. Publish directly to Net-Inspect
File Management
SOLIDWORKS Inspection integrates with SOLIDWORKS PDM and enables quality managers to mange information, control design revisions, deliverables, etc.
Inspection Reports
Export finished ballooned drawings as PDFs or 3D PDFs (when working with 3D CAD files). Export inspection reports to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets using standard templates such as AS9102 or Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) forms or customized Excel templates.