topic Re: Inspection Sheet in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Inspection Sheet

bleverit — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:19:47 GMT

I was wondering if Fusion360 will generate a blank inspection sheet with the dimensions and tolerances for a part? Similar to a Setup sheet in MANUFACTURE where it produces it for you given the dimensions of the part like MANU uses the tools in the program.

Re: Inspection Sheet

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:24:21 GMT

Hi @bleverit

I'm the product manager responsible for documentation in Fusion 360. We do not currently have this functionality planned on our public roadmap, but I'd like to spend some time understanding how your company uses manual inspection sheets, it may inform some work that we do in the future. If you're up for it, here's a link to my calendar, you can set up a meeting with me and we go over your requirement on a zoom call.

Kind Regards

Re: Inspection Sheet

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:04:32 GMT

Hello, has there been any more information on this?

Being able to directly number and input the dimensions into an inspection sheet would be great, even if its only as an export to excel. I have in-process prints (in house made prints) and its a complete other job for someone to go through my prints to number then add to an inspection for for ease of use.

Re: Inspection Sheet

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:45:47 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

As mentioned above, we do not currently have this functionality planned on our public roadmap. The roadmap is made up of features where we know that we have gaps in core drawings functionality, but it is also shaped by customer requests.

As such, I'd like to spend some time understanding how your company uses manual inspection sheets, it may inform some work that we do in the future. If you're up for it, here's a link to my calendar, you can set up a meeting with me and we go over your requirement on a zoom call.

Kind Regards

Re: Inspection Sheet

gina68ABR — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:49:46 GMT

I also would be interested in seeing fusion 360 add support for something like this. I’m imagining that the process to create a manual inspection sheet would be pretty much like creating a standard drawing, with the addition of some numbered balloons.

When printed, there would be a grid with a row for each balloon, containing the tolerances and space to fill out the actual measured values.

I see that fusion has what appears to be good support for entering values into the computer but that seems less useful as we don’t have computers at each machine. My goal here is to have something to reference while the part is still in the machine, so I can decide if I need to make adjustments before taking it out.

Re: Inspection Sheet

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:53:44 GMT

Hi @gina68ABR

Have you seen the inspection tools available in the machining workspace?

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/whats-new-in-fusion-360-manual-inspection/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_XkyzdOJE

Re: Inspection Sheet

gina68ABR — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:39:09 GMT

Hi Clint, yes I have watched that video. As I said, fusion seems oriented towards producing inspections for entry in the computer. While that is probably useful for someone else, we don't keep computers near to the machines and I want to do measurements while the parts are in the machines, so I'm looking for help in creating a piece of paper that I can near the machine.

I’m imagining that the process to create a manual inspection sheet would be pretty much like creating a standard drawing, with the addition of some numbered balloons.

When printed, there would be a grid with a row for each balloon, containing the tolerances and space to fill out the actual measured values.

Re: Inspection Sheet

ClintBrown3D — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:39:37 GMT

Hi @gina68ABR

Understood. This is a new feature request.

Every customer request that we get, from meetings, emails, forum posts etc. gets collected and categorised in our feature request database. This information is used to prioritise the features that we build next. I've added your request to our database.

Re: Inspection Sheet

dustin.combs — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:15:27 GMT

My company does the same, being able to print an inspection sheet for machinists and qc would be quite beneficial and standardization in job travellers for these operations.

Re: Inspection Sheet

jonathanBUCVS — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:14:03 GMT

@ClintBrown3D I too was just looking for this functionality in Fusion. As with Gina & Dustin, we are looking for a paper template, not values recorded into the computer. But keeping these templates in one location helps when printing the travelers.

I noticed that when I Create Manual Inspections, I get a sub-setup called Manual Inspections1. I tried posting that to the dump file, but since it doesn't contain any operations, I get an error. I was hoping that if I could post that, I could write a custom post to output the desired parameters to an Excel template, similar to the Excel Setup Sheet post.

Re: Inspection Sheet

lauri.reidma — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:17:10 GMT

Hi,

I was looking for the same feature as well. @gina68ABR described exactly the same thing I was looking for.

Re: Inspection Sheet

busines1234 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:33:06 GMT

Hi, is posible make modifications to the default sheet of the inspection report? Like a add a logo, the company name, material etc, something like the drawings in inventor, where you can create a title block with the data that you want, and some parameters that you can fill when open a new template. Regards

Re: Inspection Sheet

jrprogramming02 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:28:02 GMT

I second this. Currently, I have to manually create a corresponding blank inspection sheet in excel that the operators can print out, then manually fill out with pen at the inspection station. We do not have the hardware yet for digital recording on the shop floor. I would love it if I could have inspection "balloon" numbers, dimensions, and tolerances automatically populate into an excel (or similar) sheet.

Also, it would be great if we could add an "inspection" checkbox to "notes" on the sheet. Currently, I have to create a sketch or a symbol for an inspection bubble, then manually enter any tolerances for threads or hole dimensions.