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Downloading and installing inspection easy software
Activating Inspection easy software
Options for learning how to use inspection easy software
Overview of the software
Creator menu bar functions.
2D drawings viewer screen functions.
Defining inspection points (Inspection region definition)
Defining GD&T callouts with bonus calculations
Poster overview
Poster : data entry and Export to Excel, PDF
Downloading and installing InspectionEasy
software.
When you download and install our two programs (creator.zip and poster.zip)
From our website you will see the above three icons on your desk top.
We encourage you to install on multiple computers so all your employees can become
familiarized with our programs. These are full feature programs with no restrictions.
Activate inspectioneasy
When you click on the activate inspectioneasy icon you will see the following window:
If you have an internet
connection please use step one
here to activate your license. You
will be able to use it for thirty
days. This will also register your
computer MAC address into our
database. This way we can send
you a permanent license when
you purchase.
(If there is no internet connection or if your firewall blocks the license transfer then please
Use steps two and three above to activate.)
There are three options for
learning our software
 Continue with this power point tutorial.
 Watch the videos on our website. Or click the question
mark icon while in the creator or poster.
 Purchase custom one on one training from inspection
easy inc.
Software overview
 Creator
 Use this to create an inspection plan file. Our format for this has an
.idf extension. The drawings, inspection points, operations etc are
all integrated into this file.
 First start by importing a drawing file (pdf, tiff, jpeg, dwg, dxf, bmp
and many others)
 Define inspection points and operations.
 Poster
 Open a inspection plan file.
 Post data for a part, session or batch.
 Create a check sheet for manual input.
 Create a report(Excel, PDF) file from posted data.
Creator menu bar FunctionsThis is where you can rename
or delete the current
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an
image
file
.
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load
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file
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This AQL tab is for setting the
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standard AQL list. These
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your operation tabs. Layout,
laser , vmc, lathe, op1, op2 etc.
Select the tolerance object from drop down. It sets the values as
per defined through "Add ISO" form (see top of the menu bar).
You can see upper and lower tolerances, which will be used while
creating and posting IDRs if you click on “Set Block Tolerance”
button for that tolerance object.
“Reset Block Tolerance” resets the tolerance back to original
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To edit and save, check the “Edit “
This box keeps track of who is making changes to the
inspection plan
These three boxes contain the border
information for the selected drawing. Once this
is set, your first article will be output with the
zone location for all your balloons. The optical
This tool is used to crop your drawing. This can be
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your inspection callout you will see this dialog box.
Here
you
can select a measurement device for this item. Please note
These three boxes are the buffer area for the OCR.
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slide.
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Nominal value is used to derive the limits
Please note when you add a reference the balloon
from the ISO setting form
This is the feature name with the symbol. You can
will have a suffix. Example 4a, 8b etc.
Here, you can specify the
click the down arrow and select the right feature.
tolerance for the angle
The selection is easier if you type the first character
measurement
after clicking the down arrow.
You can use the edit here to add feature names.
This Slide explains the two step procedure to setup
gd&t callouts with MMC and LMC modifiers.
Step 1
a. Define a true position or a sub feature
Use true position if you have xy basic to define or angle
and distance basic to define.
Use sub feature button if it is a single feature such as
perpendicularity, concentricity, parallelism etc.
b. Use click to add references and pick up the basics if you have xy or angle/dist
c. Populate the grid of xy , angle/dist and match the number of features.
d. Hit save. At this time the defined regions will be yellow.
Step2
Step 3
Pick up the feature of size – Diameter, dist etc.
Link the step one items to the feature and select MMC, LMC, RFS
And select if it is a hole or a boss.
Use this button to post data
to a single part.
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thebutton
end of part
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asks whether
to create as
a new
posting
data continually
part
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by
feature.
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example
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inspection frequency.
can enter #1 for all 5 pcs and
then enter #2 for all 5 pcs.
Again, all this data is saved
in the database.
Lot posting is also available here.
If lot quantity is entered, batch size The pass/fail mode allows you to enter
pass or fail for all the features. This is
for each inspection point is
determined by the AQL requirement helpful to speed up your checks where
variable data is not required. Please
note that you will not be able to create
a first article report with data entered
in this mode.
Select the quality plan file
(.idf extension).
The down arrow here gets
you to the recent files or
use the browse to find the
file.
Use the down arrow here
to select the inspection
operation. First article ,
mill, lathe etc.
You can always view and
edit data that has been
posted into the database.
Also you can generate
report in excel and pdf.
In this section you can create a map to cmm
program for auto input from a CMM. This
will map to a text file output from a CMM.
You can run this poster program
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These
two
check
boxes
will
show
the
In
this
section
you
can
set
up
a
serial
device.
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will
stop
the
current
inspection
and
This
will
cancel
the
current
inspection
and
time
a
part
is
measured
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the
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zoom
options
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check
box
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inspection
as
per
checking.
sequence.
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can
enter
a
serial
number
screen.
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can output the report in pdf form.
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the
refresh
button.
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will
export
data
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you
the
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dimensions
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alternate
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import
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work
order
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templates.
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Once a custom excel
template
is imported
the data
base when
you go to
you can select any
of the
templates
youa posting.
create
a report
or edit
have imported
When selecting
data, the line that is
hovered over, the
line shows green
meaning its within
tolerance and red
showing outside
tolerance
Once in auto sequence you
can easily start posting your
data points quickly using the
scale or by typing the value
in this box
Our graphical interface
shows the nominal in
center and upper and
lower tolerances
The bars located here shows previous data. A
quick view of your SPC, every five data entries are
combined and an average (red) is placed on the
line.