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.
Need a new Revision?
Go to the menu TDP and New Drawing Revision. Click to replace the drawing (warning, do not lock the characteristics as this disables renumbering). Click to view the changes and then replace. All the previously [...]
Need to remove a drawing?
Go to the menu item TDP and Bill of Documents. If the drawing has characteristics, delete them first in the Bill of Characteristics (BoC). Then you can select the drawing and click the Trash can [...]
Want to see missed characteristics?
Press CTRL and W to perform a virtual white out which will display any missed characteristics. Then balloon all you missed and renumber via the Characteristics Properties, by entering the new balloon number in the [...]
Want to turn off the shading of captured requirements?
Under Drawing and Snap Requirement Image Options, deselect the Fill Snap Requirement.
Want to indicate a Key Characteristic on the Drawing?
Under Settings and Balloon Properties, click the check box for indicating a Key and enter a value, such as CTQ. Then be sure to select Key for any applicable characteristic in the Bill of Characteristics.
Need your license info?
Find your License information via Settings and License. This is helpful when needing DISCUS Support assistance.
Additional Net-Inspect upload columns
Modify Net-inspect Export via Settings and Net-inspect Export and identify what added columns you want/need.
Changing Autosave/Backup options
Modify your backup files via Settings and Backup/AutoSave. Indicate how often and how many backups you want.
Want to see fewer items in the BoC?
Click the 4th icon on the left of the BoC, Configure Columns, to hide or show more fields in the BoC.
Need to change from inches to metric?
Under TDP and TDP Properties, select the UOM drop down to English or Metric. Do this before ballooning!
Want to select the same Designed Tooling for multiple characteristics?
Select the items in the BoC and then right click and select Edit Multiple Characteristics. Click the checkbox next to the item you want to enter for these characteristics, such as a comment, no deburr [...]
Optimize your AutoBalloon settings
Optimize Auto Ballooning Settings by Entering Character Width and Length as 120 and DPI as 400.
Optimize your OCR settings
Optimize OCR Settings by clicking Settings and OCR Settings and set DPI to 400.
Module selection
Enable the Modules of DISCUS by clicking Settings and License Modules. Select all available to you.
Remove items not needed in the Bill of Characteristics
Click the 4th Icon on the left to Configure Columns and click to hide or show the various options in the Requirements or Results.
Characteristics out of order?
Click the CN header in the Requirements tab to reorder the characteristics in the proper sequence.
Import custom templates
Click File and Export to Excel and click Manage to import the template. You can then choose to have your template as the default.
Find your template path in DISCUS
Under File and Export to Excel, click Manage and click the checkbox to locate the path where these templates are stored.