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APEX, N.C.—Extensible CAD Technologies, a provider of quality inspection software, recently announced that it has added support for SolidWorks 2010 in InspectionXpert for SolidWorks. The new support reportedly makes it easier for users to balloon their SolidWorks drawings and export the dimensions to Microsoft Excel®. Inspection Xpert for SolidWorks 2010 is a SolidWorks Partner Product that generates quality first article and in-process inspection documentation directly from SolidWorks drawings.
According to the company (www.extensiblecad.com), InspectionXpert for SolidWorks can extract nominal dimensions, plus/minus tolerances, units, geometric tolerances, hole callouts, surface finishes, weld symbols, and notes directly from inside of SolidWorks and then export them to Excel. Uniquely numbered inspection balloons are added next to each extracted inspection characteristic, such as dimension or geometric tolerance, for easy navigation between the drawing and the inspection report form. These capabilities are said to result in “dramatically increased efficiency” in the quality inspection process, as well as significantly shorter project lead times.
Inspection Xpert for SolidWorks 2010 is part of the InspectionXpert (www.inspectionxpert.com) product line, a quality control-oriented platform that is said to quickly and accurately generate quality inspection report forms and ballooned inspection drawings directly from SolidWorks. The platform also includes InspectionXpert First-Article 2010 and CAD-integrated versions of InspectionXpert for AutoCAD, Solid Edge, Pro/ENGINEER, and CATIA v5. InspectionXpert First-Article 2010 is a CAD-neutral application that generates quality inspection documentation from popular 2D drawing formats—such as PDF, TIFF, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, and Inventor—without the need for CAD software.
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