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Dillon Troxell in Inspection8 months ago (Show more)

How to set default template location for SW Inspection Add-In projects and Excel exports?

We have project templates and excel templates saved in a network location. Instead of manually navigating to the file each time, is there a way to set a default file location like we can with drawing templates? This is for 2017 SP 3.0 with the SW Inspection add-in.

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to Jeff Whalen) 1 month ago (Show more Show less)

There is no way to define this in the SOLIDWORKS options. However, you can add them to the project and then update the template so that the same excel report template are always listed. Best, Matt

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Jeff Whalen in Inspection2 months ago (Show more)

Adding Multipliers to Various Attributes

Hello, I have a few questions in regards to adding multipliers to various drawing attributes. I've had some difficulty getting the following to work and would be interested to know if there are solutions: 1) Multipliers on Dimensions and Corresponding GD&T - When I link a GD&T control frame to a dimension that has a multiplier, the… (Show more)

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to Jeff Whalen) 1 month ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Jeff, There are a couple things you can try. You can try to change the "quantity" in the inspection properties (as opposed to change the drawing) and then - if needed - create a row for each instance (right click on the characteristic in the tree). In 2019 we are also releasing more way to control the grouping / ungrouping etc. It should…

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Jeff Whalen in Inspection1 month ago (Show more)

How to Prevent Inspection from Ignoring Leading or Trailing Whitespace in Notes?

It looks as though SolidWorks Inspection will truncate any leading or trailing whitespace in a note string. I am looking for a way to force Inspection to balloon a note if it doesn't match any of the existing criteria, but without changing it's appearance (while using the auto-balloon feature). A leading or trailing whitespace character could… (Show more)

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to Jeff Whalen) 1 month ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Jeff, It might be easier to just remove the extraction criteria. It will capture all the notes and you can then manually explode them if needed. Best, Matt

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Jeff Whalen in Inspection1 month ago (Show more)

Inconsistent Rounding Between SolidWorks and Inspection Add-In

Hello, I have experienced a bug in the rounding behavior between SolidWorks and Inspection Add-In. When a limit tolerance is applied to three places, with the last digit being a 5 (ex: +.025), and the precision is only displayed to two places, SolidWorks rounds the number UP on the drawing, but rounds DOWN inside Inspection. I attached a photo… (Show more)

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Jeff Whalen (to Josh Brady) 1 month ago (Show more Show less)

Thanks for the reply, Josh. I was able to edit the rounding behavior to match Inspection, which is helpful. It'd be nice to have the ability to adjust the settings for Inspection too so it could round up, or ideally just have Inspection mirror the document properties. But having consistency now between the drawing and the inspection report is a…

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Peter Pankras in Inspection2 months ago (Show more)

Custom CMM Data Import Template

Hi, We just got inspection Pro 2018 and cannot seem to find any documentation about this topic. We use both CMM's and Video measuring devices. The Video measuring devices can output their data as a .csv or and excel sheet. I like to be able to read that data back into inspection. None of the templates that come with Inspection seem… (Show more)

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Peter Pankras (to Alessandro TORNINCASA) 2 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Allesandro Thank you for your answer. This is somewhat helpfull. I figured I have to configure my own CMM template, but there is no clear overview of what every field does. I'm currently trying to get the output from the videomeasuring device in. It outputs a csv.. but I cannot get inspection to understand what to get out of it. …

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David Clough in Inspection4 months ago (Show more)

SW Inspection, Value 0 returned

Since updating to 2018, SW Inspection returns 0 value when tolerance is a +0 or -0. If a value is there, it is handled correctly. Ex 1: 2.000 +.000/-.005 returns values of Upper Limit = 0.000, Lower Limit = 1.995 Ex 2: Ø1.750 drawn and the tolerance as 'LIMIT' with +.000 and -.000 returns Upper Limit = 0.000 and Lower Limit = 1.745… (Show more)

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to David Clough) 4 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi David, Any chance you could share the drawing (or part of the drawing) with me so I can test this on my side? I believe it's an issue we resolved with the latest release. Thanks, Matt

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Ctm Pdm Admin in Inspection6 months ago (Show more)

SW Inspection Frustrations (Add-in and Standalone)

We evaluated the add-in but so far decided it is not worth it. Here is a list of frustrations that we faced. I'm putting these here in hopes of SW fixing these issues in later versions and we might reconsider: Overall: Documentation is poor. Had to search the web and forums to find answers. The SW Add-in software code is not very stable and… (Show more)

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Dominik Kirschner (to Ctm Pdm Admin) 5 months ago (Show more Show less)

in solidworks you can use the latest PDF distiller to include the "searchable text". I've tested Ghostscript 9.20 Distiller and it worked so far - but I figured out that DXF/DWG is much better, because even the dimension-helplines and lieader lines are recognized and associative to the dimension-text - means that a hidden dimension also hides…

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Ryan Fritts in Inspection6 months ago (Show more)

CTQ instead of Inspection Balloon

We are looking to purchase and implement Inspection but one of our problems is that it does not seem to have the ability to use a CTQ callout instead of the inspection balloon. CTQ's are one of those grey/gray area's in the standards but are required by our parent company. Is this something SolidWorks is working on implementing? Also would… (Show more)

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to Ryan Fritts) 6 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Ryan, SOLIDWORKS Inspection has extraction criterias. You can define if you want the software to automatically extract all dimensions or not. Then you can manually remove the one that were not needed. In any case, no need to circle the dimension or anything. Matt

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Yang Pan in Inspection6 months ago (Show more)

How to export extra dimension to a second tab in excel

Let's say I only want to have 15 dims on each tab of excel and one part I am measuring now have 45 dimensions. In my template I only have one tab there, is it possible to let solidworks inspection automatically export three tabs based on that one-tab template I have now? I have tried the IXFooterRow001 in the template but it only expands the… (Show more)

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Matthieu Fourcade

(to Yang Pan) 6 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hi, The other method would be to load all the data in 1 sheet and then use a macro to automatically create multiple tabs... Regards, Matt

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