I'm going to show you a
simple workflow of the inspection
add in of how we can create a new project.
Capture some of the custom properties
from the file
and create a bill of characteristics
with balloon dimensions.
This is the part I'm going to be using.
It's a bracket containing a simple bend
with two hole results.
This file also contains custom properties
for the mass material and the description.
This drawing is very similar.
It has a few views all dimensions
with the hole call outs
for the whole wizard on the flange.
It also contains some dimensions
with tolerances, information.
We're going
to create a new inspection project
using the default template.
This is standard
for all installations of SolidWorks.
You can even customize them.
Or there are several pre-made
in various standards.
One of the
first steps with creating the inspection
project is capturing
some of the basic information.
This can be typed in manually
or it can be extracted
from the custom properties of the file.
In this case, we're going to extract the
description property sheet metal bracket.
I'm going to reuse that for the part name.
This step is important as this will be
populated into the Excel report
later down the line.
The next step is extracting information
from a drawing.
We're going to extract the dimensions
and the whole class
in the dimension option.
Nothing needs to be change.
This is set up to capture everything
by default.
If, for example, we only wanted to capture
inspection dimensions,
we can take this option
in the whole call out box.
We need to unpick inspection only as our
whole call out doesn't have an inspection.
Tolerance.
On completion,
it will then blown all of our dimensions
in a clockwise
fashion, going around the drawing.
If you look on the left hand sides,
we can see our auto
created bill of characteristics.
This has captured all the information,
including the hole wizard
you can see it's
clever enough to detected that
there are two holes in the whole call outs
and it has separated them out
as 3.1 and 3.2.
If we look at all dimension but
tolerances information,
you can see that
as also correctly captured
the plus minus as 0.25.
So you can see in a few easy steps, we've
gone from a SolidWorks drawing to a fully
populated bill of characteristics
with balloon dimensions.