DISCUS Software Tips

Are your customers giving you models? Look no further than DISCUS 3D.

Do need a Control Plan with operations and work instructions with in process drawings? DISCUS Planner is an ideal solution.

Sharpen them with the DISCUS menu item View and Adjust Contrast for improving the OCR on the drawings.

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No problem as you can use a tolerance designation function. Check out page 32 of the tutorial and ask for a sample CSV file to import. Contact [email protected] for the tutorial and sample file.

Under Settings and Colors find the item and a color palette to change colors, such as completed balloons to be blue instead of green.

Contact [email protected] and we can send you the appropriate template. Enable the macros and press CTRL and M and the data will be in metric and inches.

Before you balloon, zoom into the title block to ascertain if the part is inches or metric. Under TDP and TDP Properties, then switch to the UOM for that part.

To mark up the Drawing with Text, click the T icon in the tool bar. This will open a text field on the drawing. Enter the text and this will display and export on the [...]

To create a New Tab in the Bill of Characteristics (BoC), click the menu item Settings and Detail Panel and click the Plus sign to add a new tab.

Rotate your drawing via the menu item Drawing and Rotate Drawing: 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

On the drawing panel, select the balloons you want to modify and right click to select Balloon Properties. At this point you can select a different shape, size and/or color of those selected balloons.

In the Bill of Characteristics, click the 4th icon on the left column, Configure Columns. Click to remove from view any data that you would not like to have visible. This can be on the [...]

Under Results, click Orders and Report and then click the Manage Orders and Reports button. Create a new report and the result data including designed tooling is removed so you can enter result values on [...]

Click Settings and Results Settings to automatically record the FAI Inspector Name/ID.

Establish default directories under the menu item Settings / Default Directories. Click the ellipses icon on the right and navigate to the folder locations to default files for drawings, export templates and more.

When using the Auto Sub balloon function, create a filter and set the parameters to Reportable 'is true' and save. Then all the parent balloons will not display and the reportable sub balloons will be [...]

New Basic characteristic type allows any value to be entered for the actual/result with a passing value.

Globally change the balloon size to just those selected or all existing under Settings and Balloon Properties.

Change the depth/thickness of the balloons and leader lines under Settings and Balloon Properties.