The selection overlay: this is interesting, are you trying to compare the results from 2 parts here? Or is there another reason for having the same feature measured twice?
With several result sets (different parts?) selected the image in the PDF is unreadable in the same way as this image so we could do with another identifier as mentioned. Please ignore the second measurement in "Measure1" as I added that to see what would happen after reading your post. It does the same without that measurement!
This particular image is just to demonstrate the overlapping text, I'm not sure what use doing this inside the UI would serve.
Auto serialising a parts is something we need to investigate, do you think it would be something like it just adds 1 to the last measure name, or are you thinking something more complex?
It could be as simple as that - at the moment it increments by one (Measure1, Measure2, Measure3) etc. but a way to give it a serial number at the point of doing the measurement would be nice. Thinking about it now, the CMM software we use asks for a serial number (and some optional comments) at the start of each measurement cycle and there is a checkbox for "Use this serial number for future measurements" if you are running a batch.
Perhaps it doesn't need to be auto-incrementing, and it just needs a way to input the name of the result set without having to rename it later?
CSV export, this has been asked for before. What would you do with this CSV once exported?
At the moment I don't have a use for this, but I could see it being useful in the future when there are a lot of data points, especially if doing surface inspections in the machine. I work in a higher education environment so some weird requests come up from time to time - getting the data out neatly might be helpful for someone down the line. For the moment drag-selecting everything in the inspection results window mostly works out!
Now onto the most interesting one, printing a paper "blank" sequence. Is this because the inspection does not have access to a PC or does not have access to Fusion? Would something like an APP on a tablet or mobile device be suitable, thank you for understanding the point we are trying to make with this and setup sheets being digital though.
Some use cases off the top of my head would be to perhaps give a student a drawing and number of these sheets, have them produce a stack of parts, inspecting each one as it is completed from either a manual or CNC machine. Access to computers in the workshops can be touch and go, and it's definitely not guaranteed that a PC nearby will have recently updated version Fusion on it or even a recent version of Windows! A web app on mobile could work well in this case.
The main use I see for this is an inspection sheet following the part through its journey from the waterjet cutter, rough milling, heat treatment, surface grinding before being broken in some test equipment in a lab somewhere. Throughout the process it might touch two or three different people - from the student cutting the first parts to the technicians doing the heat treating and grinding before going back to the student doing the destructive testing.
There's no guarantee that everyone along the way will have appropriate access to the Fusion file or know what to do with it, but everyone can fill in the paper inspection sheet that comes stapled to the wallet the part is in! The academic world is not as streamlined as some shops (typically very high mix, very low volume, 101 different stakeholders, about as many different software packages) so in this case, I don't think a web app would work.
It would be relatively straightforward to make a drawing or what-have-you that fulfilled these purposes using a combination of Fusion and Word or something but the inspection results PDF gets me 80-90% of the way there already, and the process of defining the measurements and tolerance works well.
Excellent feedback and much appreciated, I hope you can continue to use Manual Inspection in your day to day workflows as we develop it.
My pleasure, glad you found it useful. Because of the huge variety of people we interact with our department tends to push Fusion 360, but the rest of my institution is heavily Solidworks based. Hopefully features like the inspection suite will help to tip the balance a bit. I know I'll be using it for the next parts I run!
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