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Discus vs inspctionxpert?

ProbFlex
has anyone use DISCUS OR INSPECTIONXPERT? which one is better?
What have you found easier to use for first articles reports.
  • When using PC DMIS, one should follow a strict naming convention for features, alignments, dimensions, etc. NO spaces or special characters. ONLY numbers, letters, and underscores. Failure to do so will result in weird/unexplainable stuff happening to/within your code. Your code is giving me some serious anxiety! lol.

    BTW, I agree with kirby, no discus for me.
  • in reply to DAN_M
    lol .okay. will you elaborate what i did that doesn't line up with the strict naming convention. i hear you but i don't see what your talking about. is it the "ITEM_#"
  • in reply to DAN_M
    Just trying to help you out my friend! I am sure you have loads of programs that work just fine naming stuff whatever you want. And that's all well and good. Can't argue with success!

    However, when you start getting more advanced with variables and loops, you will run into trouble. It happened to me and forced me to take a good hard look at what i was doing for the first 5yrs of my prg career.

    I.E.
    "PLN_3.780"--> "PLN_3PNT870".

    "1.404_Z_PLUS"--> "1PNT404_Z_PLUS"
  • in reply to DAN_M
    cool. I didn't take it personal at all. i love to learn! and yes call me out on it.
    I now know what your talking about. lol

    Cool so how would you identify the two plans so its easy to identify when dimensioning. this are two perilla plans to each other
    1.404_Z_PLUS TO PLANE 1.404_Z_MINUS. i whish i could add an image so you can see. when i try to upload, it says not enough data.
  • in reply to DAN_M
    may i email you ? i like to show you what i am working with. i can really use the help as you can see..lol  i like to show you the Drawing. or here is my email. ravila9566@gmail.com or text 951-347-7540

    Thank you
  • Sure, the .[34.1,DF] is one of lets say it was 4 Radii, so in Xpert, if I ballooned it as 10 in my examples below, and I put there are 4 of them in the quantity then I would click on that Icon right beside it, and it would produce 4 seperate lines and when I would put in the comment as .[10.1] .[10.2] .[10.3] .[10.4] individually before each report. Technically the example above should have had .[35.1] because that is pulling the position out of that result and I reported several positions.

  • in reply to KIRBSTER269
    i get the multiple example: 34.1-34.10 or 10.1-10.5
    but how do the others play a role in the same COMMENT box.
    COMMENT/REPT,
    .[34.1,DF]
    ?.[35]
    ?.[41,Y]
    ?.[36,Z]
    is my code for the ballooning implemented right in the my coding?
  • comment/rept,
.[2]
dim item_2= 2d distance from plane 2.91_x_plus to plane 2.91_x_minus (center to center),no_radius units=in,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
m 2.9125 0.0900 0.0900 2.9124 -0.0001 0.0000 ----#----
comment/rept,
.[3]
dim item_3= location of cylinder 2.86 units=in ,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both half angle=no
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
d 2.8600 0.0900 0.0900 2.8600 0.0000 0.0000 ----#----
end of dimension item_3
displayprecision/3
comment/rept,
.[4]
dim item_4= 3d distance from plane 3.870 pln to plane pln2,shortest=on,no_radius units=in,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
m 3.870 0.010 0.010 3.869 -0.001 0.000 ----#----
comment/rept,
.[5]
dim item_5= 3d distance from plane z_level to plane 2.904,shortest=off,no_radius units=in,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
m 2.904 0.010 0.010 2.904 0.000 0.000 ----#----
comment/rept,
.[6]
dim item_6= 2d distance from plane 1.404_z_plus to plane 1.404_z_minus par to zaxis,no_radius units=in,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
m 1.404 0.010 0.010 1.404 0.000 0.000 ----#----
comment/rept,
.[7.1]
dim item_7.1= location of circle r .500z_plus units=in ,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both half angle=no
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
r 0.500 0.010 0.010 0.500 0.000 0.000 ----#----
end of dimension item_7.1
comment/rept,
.[7.2]
dim item_7.2= location of circle r .500z_minus units=in ,$
graph=off text=off mult=10.00 output=both half angle=no
ax nominal +tol -tol meas dev outtol
r 0.500 0.010 0.010 0.500 0.000 0.000 ----#----
end of dimension item_7.2
  • in reply to ProbFlex
    How about HiQA Inspection Manager, does anyone here have experience with this one?
    I have been using InspectionXpert for many years now and even though it doesn't do well on OCR and requires a lot of manual fixing I can still move through a project fairly fast.
    But we recently switched over to Inspection Manager and I am finding it difficult to learn.
    I believe its strong points are geared towards production with many tools available for controlling lot samples and the ability to auto balloon 500 dimensions in about 5
    min.
    But for getting a quick inspection report out for one part, I would say its not very streamlined. Still trying to find out if its hard to work with or if I just need to give the software more time.
    Anyone with experience on this software care to comment if they like it or not?
  • in reply to KIRBSTER269
    It's a position callout, I'm extracting the diameter, which is blueprint [34]
    The actual position, which is blueprint [35]
    the BASIC number in the Y direction of that hole which is blueprint [41]
    the BASIC number in the Z direction of that hole which is blueprint [36]
    You have to Balloon the drawing first, so you know what you are extracting so it just plugs it in Xpert
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