Overview

Verify that manufactured parts match your designs in SolidWorks

InspectWorks is an add-in for SolidWorks that enables quick, first-article inspection from 3D scan data right. InspectWorks is fast and easy to use, so you can check part quality right at your desk. You simply scan your part with a 3D scanner, import it into SolidWorks, and InspectWorks aligns the scan to your part, shows deviation color maps, and instantly calculates all dimensions and tolerances defined on the part. And because it’s built on the same industry-leading architecture as Rapidform XOV, InspectWorks is accurate, industry-tested, and fast.

Quick and easy part inspection inside SolidWorks
Compatible with any 3D scanner
Uses dimensions and tolerances already defined on your part inside SolidWorks
Exports detailed inspection reports just like Rapidform XOV

Features

Quickly Check Part Quality Inside SolidWorks Using a 3D scanner

InspectWorks is the only third party SolidWorks add-in for quick, first-article inspection from 3D scan data. Compare SolidWorks models to manufactured parts – get deviation color maps, dimensions and tolerance measurements in 10 minutes. Designed for SolidWorks who don’t need a whole metrology lab to check their parts, InspectWorks is fast and easy to use, so you can check part quality right at your desk.

Inspection for SolidWorks Designers

InspectWorks arms the designer and manufacturing engineer with quick access to part quality information so that the product development cycle continues unimpeded. A design engineer can quickly check the part using a 3D scanner to get verification of the part’s quality before moving on to the next stage of development.

Specifications

Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XDL/XRL/XOV(XO Model File), MDL(Rapidform2006 File), PTS(Rapidform Points File), FCS(Rapidform Polygons File),
ICF(INUS Compression Format), RPS(Rapidform Point-Stream File)

Standard File Formats

ASC/XYZ/TXT(Ascii Points File), STL, OBJ, 3DS(3D Studio), WRL(VRML 1.0/97), IV(Inventor Ascii), DAT/NAS(Nastran),
ANS(Ansys), IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP File), DXF(AutoCAD DXF File), VDA(VDA-FS), 3DM(Rhino Open NURBS)

3D scanner file format

SCN(NextEngine), AC(Steinbichler), BRE(Breuckmann), VVD/CDM/CAM/CDK(VIVID), RGV/RVM(Range7), G3D/CLOUD/SURF(GOM),
PMJ/PMJX(3D Digital Corp.), PTS/PTX(Cyra), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN(Opton), SOI(MENSI), STB(Scantech), 3PI(Shape Grabber),
SAB/SAB2(3D Scanners), SWL/BIN/SWB(Perceptron), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB(DeltaSphere), PSL/SCN/PCN(LDI), CBK/GRK/CWK(Kreon),
ICV/SNX(Solutionix), TFM(Wicks & Wilson), IQSCAN(iQ volution), FLS/FWS(FARO LS), 3DD(Riegl), M3D(Steintek),
HYM(Hymarc), PIX(PICZA), XYZ, XYZN (Cognitens), OPD (Optimet), PLY(Cyberware), CL3(Topcon)

Major Functionalities

Large capacity for point cloud data handling within SolidWorks environment
One click best-fit and datum based alignment of scans to SolidWorks models
Compare scanned parts to SolidWorks models to see deviations with color-map
Check overall deviation on the 3D part, as well as 2D section deviations
Seamless integration with SolidWorks user interface and its DimXpert™ feature
Support various Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing(GD&T) based on the ASME Y14.5M 1994 standard
Automatic repeating of inspection job based on project
One click report to Microsoft Excel format