Creating inspection drawings/documentation,etc...

[mcgyvr]

How is everyone handling incoming inspection drawings/documentation with Inventor?

I just started looking into this (is finally ISO time and we haven't done incoming inspection in 10+ years here and prior to that it was the typical red marker on the drawing giving a number to each dimension and recording that on paper including the dimension/tolerance min and max)

We are trying to go "paperless" now to of course.

My first though is using ilogic to export all idw dimensions to excel? (I couldn't find anything other than vb stuff from years ago but it did work to extract all dims to csv/excel)

Inspectionxpert looks neat and I looked into it 5+ years ago but still don't think it will work "seamlessly" with Inventor.. Solidworks/catia kids get all the cool stuff.

[ravikmb5]

There is addin Called Inspection Geni For SolidWorks

What it does 

it creates a ballon For Each Dimension and adds an Sequential attribute

(Technically balloning an dimension called Tear Drops)

Then it exports to Excel File 

And with Customising as per Industrial Standards

U can Also set which type of Guage is used For that Particular Dimension

Inspection Geni

video

Long Before around 3 Years,

From our Company We have offered that guy, who has developed this addin For solidworks

to make an addin similar way for Inventor

He tried but atlast he said that Inventor API is not Fully Supported as Solidworks

Later some Guys in our company Tried to do with API 

Finally They concluded that u can Exported all Dimesions to Excel 

but 

u can't export dimesions with tolerance

the only way u can do this is Export to Autocad DWG

And From Autocad u can Export to Excel with all Specified Tolerance

[mcgyvr]

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@ravikmb5 wrote:

There is addin Called Inspection Geni For SolidWorks

What it does 

it creates a ballon For Each Dimension and adds an Sequential attribute

(Technically balloning an dimension called Tear Drops)

Then it exports to Excel File 

And with Customising as per Industrial Standards

U can Also set which type of Guage is used For that Particular Dimension

Inspection Geni

video

Long Before around 3 Years,

From our Company We have offered that guy, who has developed this addin For solidworks

to make an addin similar way for Inventor

He tried but atlast he said that Inventor API is not Fully Supported as Solidworks

Later some Guys in our company Tried to do with API 

Finally They concluded that u can Exported all Dimesions to Excel 

but 

u can't export dimesions with tolerance

the only way u can do this is Export to Autocad DWG

And From Autocad u can Export to Excel with all Specified Tolerance

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Sure.. tease me with another cool toy for the solidworks kids again.. I see plenty of that already. 

Not sure why my post says an "Request for Answer submitted on 11/23/2014".. I did not do that.. 

And of course I got this email from Autodesk and when I click on "No this issue does not need resolution" I'm taken to an autodesk.force site and it says "authorization required".. and no where to log in to anything..