The production part approval process, or PPAP, is a quality control and approval process in the manufacturing industry. Its purpose is to help ensure that parts can meet customer-specific requirements every time. However, it doesn’t [...]
Easy! Click your Results tab and at the bottom of the BoC are color icons to click for the status of the results. Easily see which results you need to enter, and which ones are [...]
With data in the Bill of Characteristics (BoC) click to export template to Excel. Click Manage Template and then click the upload function. Your template will be ready for you to use!
This template not only parses out the nominal, upper and lower tolerances, but displays the upper and lower spec limits! Contact [email protected] to get a copy of this template.
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In Results and Configure Fields, enter the Designed Tooling. Then in the Bill of Characteristics (BoC), select all the characteristics to have that designed tooling. Right click and select Edit Multiple Characteristics. Click the check [...]
Under Result Settings enter the Pass value and the Fail value as text. Then in the Bill of Characteristics (BoC) with the Results tab displayed, enter the value in the Results field.
Access this via Settings, Profile Settings and Detail Panel to add/remove a tab in the BoC).
Under Settings and Profile Settings, access the Class and then click to add a value, such as N/A or Safety. This will then be available for you as a drop down. You can select the [...]
Access this via Settings, Application Settings and Backup/Autosave, to increase or decrease the backups.
Right-click on the drawing and click Set Sheet Number. Enter the page you want such as 1 and that will be recorded as sheet 1 in your export.
If you have a multiple page drawing, load the drawing and indicate what pages you want processes, such as 3-6, 7 and only those pages will be processed for ballooning.
When you add the drawing, a new feature for DISCUS 2024 U1, you can click on the function to exclude areas that will not be processed. Simply drag the rectangle around any section not to [...]
Under Settings | Application Settings | IDA® Settings, click the middle radio button to create a Note for the Flag note.
Under Settings | Application Settings | IDA® Settings navigate to the bottom of the page for balloon sequencing options: click bottom to top or top to bottom, depending upon the sequence of the notes.
Under Settings, click Net-inspect validation and then when you edit the specification on the Process tab in the Bill of Characteristics , you can click on the drop-down to select either Material or Process. When [...]
Under Settings and IDA Settings and Advanced IDA Settings, select all options to enable the queue. The ability to load many documents to process is found under the IDA menu and IDA Document Queue Management.
Use these simple settings: Under TDP and Snap Requirements options, remove all check marks.
There are 4 criteria. 1. Save as CSV. 2 Data in columns 3. There is a column header (any order). 4. Columns are: Char number, Nominal, Upper Tolerance, Lower Tolerance and Measured. Out of Tolerance [...]
In Settings and Application settings and Balloon Properties, scroll down to the bottom and click to include auto leader lines. When you balloon the data the leader lines will be automatically applied.
