Practice exercise

Create an inspection report for a part

In this practice you’ll create a new manual inspection report for a caliper bracket.

Learning objectives:

  • Review a CAM setup.
  • Create a new manual inspection.
  • Enter inspection values.
  • Generate an inspection report.

Exercise

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00:01

This is a practice exercise video solution

00:04

for this practice.

00:05

You want to go ahead and use any of the files

00:07

that you have that contain at least one set up.

00:10

We're gonna be taking a look at setting up a manual inspection in fusion 3 60.

00:15

Now,

00:15

this can be done from the manufacturer workspace and navigating to the inspection.

00:19

Tab

00:20

note that the inspection will be located inside of your

00:23

active setup in this case inside of my two.

00:27

Now this is where I want to create my inspection report inside of two.

00:31

So I'm gonna make sure that that does stay active.

00:34

There are many different ways in which we can create inspections in fusion 3 60.

00:38

Some of them are going to use probing to probe our work coordinate system.

00:42

Some will be using probing to probe geometry or surfaces.

00:45

But in this case, we're going to focus on creating a manual inspection.

00:49

Manual inspections can measure different types of geometry and to get started.

00:53

The first thing I'm gonna do is rotate my part slightly

00:56

and take a look at the inside diameter here.

00:59

Notice that it places a dimension and this dimension

01:02

is going to represent the diameter of the hole.

01:04

In this case, the ideal diameter,

01:06

we can put an upper and lower tolerance value.

01:09

In this case, based on our print, we'll put plus or minus 0.05.

01:13

We're gonna change the manual inspection name to large ID.

01:18

We're measuring the diameter and then I'm gonna hit plus to add a new inspection.

01:22

If we want to measure the distance between two holes, we can select a hole,

01:26

we can change the distance type to center to center distance.

01:30

And then we can select our second hole.

01:32

In this case, I'm gonna put Caliper

01:36

mount

01:37

and again for tolerance value, I'm gonna be using 0.01.

01:41

In this case instead of the default 0.004

01:45

we have a measure method in this case direct,

01:48

but we can also use maximum or minimum distance, gonna leave mine as direct for now,

01:54

you can continue to add additional dimensions for your manual inspection,

01:58

but we're gonna select, ok.

01:60

And just finish with those two.

02:02

Once we've created our manual inspections,

02:04

you can see there's a folder located inside of our

02:07

two set up. We have our large ID as well as our caliper mount.

02:11

We can select each one of these individually,

02:14

right click and record a manual inspection.

02:17

We can also do this at the top level of

02:19

the folder by right clicking and selecting record manual inspection.

02:23

It's important to note that if we do them individually,

02:26

we will have individual inspection results.

02:29

In this case notice at the very top,

02:31

the results folder will be a new inspection results.

02:33

Since we haven't recorded anything yet,

02:36

we're going to enter a value for the large ID, which by default should be 0.38.

02:41

If I say that we measured this at 0.35 we can see that it's within the tolerance value.

02:48

The deviation is 0.03

02:50

and the error is 00.

02:53

If we hit, enter,

02:55

we're gonna record that and move on to the next value.

02:58

In this case, a distance to distance value.

03:02

In this case, I'm gonna measure 3.02.

03:08

Now this is outside of the spec,

03:09

you can see that the arrow is telling us the measured state is above our limit.

03:14

That's OK. I'm gonna hit enter to record that value.

03:18

What we've done is we've now created a results folder

03:20

for inspection results with the large ID and the caliber mount

03:25

we can add to these at any point in time,

03:28

but this shows us the results inside of fusion 3 60

03:32

how they relate to our part.

03:34

The orange values will be outside of tolerance and the green values will be inside.

03:38

So our caliper mount is outside of our tolerance range,

03:41

but the large ID is inside because it's displayed in green.

03:46

This can often times be a little bit difficult to see depending on the geometry,

03:50

potentially the fixtures or other geometry.

03:52

That might be in its way,

03:54

we can always go back and add additional values

03:57

by right clicking and going into our record manual inspection

04:02

for the large ID. I'm gonna record a value that is 0.45.

04:08

I'm gonna hit enter and for the caliper mount, I'm gonna do 3.01 and hit enter.

04:13

Notice that these automatically got added to a new set of results.

04:17

If you want to inspect multiple results on the

04:20

same part or inside of the same inspection results,

04:24

one thing you can do is you can right

04:25

click and when you're recording those manual results,

04:28

instead of going to a new inspection results, simply pick a previous one.

04:32

In this case, we'll go ahead and add 0.38 and 3.01 once more and hit. Enter,

04:41

notice that in our results folder,

04:43

we now have a large ID listed twice and the caliper mount listed twice.

04:49

Once you've recorded all the results from

04:50

your preproduction or your production runs,

04:53

you can right click,

04:54

you can show the results and you can also generate an inspection report.

04:58

I'm gonna select generate inspection report. I'm gonna save it just to the cloud.

05:02

But note you can also save it locally as a PDF.

05:06

Once it gets generated, it will open up in a web browser.

05:09

And we can take a look at the results

05:14

inside of our inspection results.

05:16

We can see here that we measured the large ID twice.

05:19

And the type as a whole, we measured the caliper mount center to center twice.

05:24

We can also see the values and the deviations as well as any that are out of tolerance.

05:29

So this can be extremely helpful when you're

05:31

generating your first or your preproduction parts.

05:35

And you want

05:36

the dimensions,

05:37

make sure that you understand how these documents can be created in fusion 3

05:47

Once you're done,

05:47

make sure that any changes have been saved to your design and then you can move on.

Video transcript

00:01

This is a practice exercise video solution

00:04

for this practice.

00:05

You want to go ahead and use any of the files

00:07

that you have that contain at least one set up.

00:10

We're gonna be taking a look at setting up a manual inspection in fusion 3 60.

00:15

Now,

00:15

this can be done from the manufacturer workspace and navigating to the inspection.

00:19

Tab

00:20

note that the inspection will be located inside of your

00:23

active setup in this case inside of my two.

00:27

Now this is where I want to create my inspection report inside of two.

00:31

So I'm gonna make sure that that does stay active.

00:34

There are many different ways in which we can create inspections in fusion 3 60.

00:38

Some of them are going to use probing to probe our work coordinate system.

00:42

Some will be using probing to probe geometry or surfaces.

00:45

But in this case, we're going to focus on creating a manual inspection.

00:49

Manual inspections can measure different types of geometry and to get started.

00:53

The first thing I'm gonna do is rotate my part slightly

00:56

and take a look at the inside diameter here.

00:59

Notice that it places a dimension and this dimension

01:02

is going to represent the diameter of the hole.

01:04

In this case, the ideal diameter,

01:06

we can put an upper and lower tolerance value.

01:09

In this case, based on our print, we'll put plus or minus 0.05.

01:13

We're gonna change the manual inspection name to large ID.

01:18

We're measuring the diameter and then I'm gonna hit plus to add a new inspection.

01:22

If we want to measure the distance between two holes, we can select a hole,

01:26

we can change the distance type to center to center distance.

01:30

And then we can select our second hole.

01:32

In this case, I'm gonna put Caliper

01:36

mount

01:37

and again for tolerance value, I'm gonna be using 0.01.

01:41

In this case instead of the default 0.004

01:45

we have a measure method in this case direct,

01:48

but we can also use maximum or minimum distance, gonna leave mine as direct for now,

01:54

you can continue to add additional dimensions for your manual inspection,

01:58

but we're gonna select, ok.

01:60

And just finish with those two.

02:02

Once we've created our manual inspections,

02:04

you can see there's a folder located inside of our

02:07

two set up. We have our large ID as well as our caliper mount.

02:11

We can select each one of these individually,

02:14

right click and record a manual inspection.

02:17

We can also do this at the top level of

02:19

the folder by right clicking and selecting record manual inspection.

02:23

It's important to note that if we do them individually,

02:26

we will have individual inspection results.

02:29

In this case notice at the very top,

02:31

the results folder will be a new inspection results.

02:33

Since we haven't recorded anything yet,

02:36

we're going to enter a value for the large ID, which by default should be 0.38.

02:41

If I say that we measured this at 0.35 we can see that it's within the tolerance value.

02:48

The deviation is 0.03

02:50

and the error is 00.

02:53

If we hit, enter,

02:55

we're gonna record that and move on to the next value.

02:58

In this case, a distance to distance value.

03:02

In this case, I'm gonna measure 3.02.

03:08

Now this is outside of the spec,

03:09

you can see that the arrow is telling us the measured state is above our limit.

03:14

That's OK. I'm gonna hit enter to record that value.

03:18

What we've done is we've now created a results folder

03:20

for inspection results with the large ID and the caliber mount

03:25

we can add to these at any point in time,

03:28

but this shows us the results inside of fusion 3 60

03:32

how they relate to our part.

03:34

The orange values will be outside of tolerance and the green values will be inside.

03:38

So our caliper mount is outside of our tolerance range,

03:41

but the large ID is inside because it's displayed in green.

03:46

This can often times be a little bit difficult to see depending on the geometry,

03:50

potentially the fixtures or other geometry.

03:52

That might be in its way,

03:54

we can always go back and add additional values

03:57

by right clicking and going into our record manual inspection

04:02

for the large ID. I'm gonna record a value that is 0.45.

04:08

I'm gonna hit enter and for the caliper mount, I'm gonna do 3.01 and hit enter.

04:13

Notice that these automatically got added to a new set of results.

04:17

If you want to inspect multiple results on the

04:20

same part or inside of the same inspection results,

04:24

one thing you can do is you can right

04:25

click and when you're recording those manual results,

04:28

instead of going to a new inspection results, simply pick a previous one.

04:32

In this case, we'll go ahead and add 0.38 and 3.01 once more and hit. Enter,

04:41

notice that in our results folder,

04:43

we now have a large ID listed twice and the caliper mount listed twice.

04:49

Once you've recorded all the results from

04:50

your preproduction or your production runs,

04:53

you can right click,

04:54

you can show the results and you can also generate an inspection report.

04:58

I'm gonna select generate inspection report. I'm gonna save it just to the cloud.

05:02

But note you can also save it locally as a PDF.

05:06

Once it gets generated, it will open up in a web browser.

05:09

And we can take a look at the results

05:14

inside of our inspection results.

05:16

We can see here that we measured the large ID twice.

05:19

And the type as a whole, we measured the caliper mount center to center twice.

05:24

We can also see the values and the deviations as well as any that are out of tolerance.

05:29

So this can be extremely helpful when you're

05:31

generating your first or your preproduction parts.

05:35

And you want

05:36

the dimensions,

05:37

make sure that you understand how these documents can be created in fusion 3

05:47

Once you're done,

05:47

make sure that any changes have been saved to your design and then you can move on.

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