Find a missed characteristic
After you balloon, press CTRL and W and anything characteristics not in orange blocks per the Intelligent Drawing Analysis (IDA™) that display, you can manually balloon and renumber.
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Dock or undock the Characteristics Properties
Open the Characteristic Properties and select the dock icon and this page will populate the right side of the DISCUS panel. Un dock to remove this from the right panel
Set up IDA™ Settings
Under Settings and IDA Settings, find a list of ideal settings from which to choose. For example, ignore references or not. Set to have them record actuals or not. Same for Basic Dimensions. Set to [...]
Capture Surface Roughness
Select a body of characteristics and then locate the surface roughness. Right-click and select Surface Roughness from the list.
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How IDA™ can save your company time, resources and money
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Select a Body of Characteristics
For a faster method, click your selection tool and drag it around a body of characteristics. Select any single characteristic that is highlighted and right click. Select Convert to Characteristics and all characteristics selected will [...]
Define Characteristics with IDA™
Select the Balloon Icon and then double click an item highlighted in orange. The characteristic populates the Bill of Characteristics (BoC).
Initiate the Intelligent Drawing Analysis (IDA™) process
Add a drawing but do not select to populate all characteristics at this time option.
Want to remove items in the BoC?
Click the 4th icon on the Bill of Characteristics to remove from view any item, such as Production Equipment etc. and this “cleans up” your BOC.