Working demo

Machining quality inspection and drawing ballooning demo

Reads a customer's PDF drawing, balloons every characteristic and builds the first-article inspection report for a precision machine shop.

This is a working demo we built for a business deciding whether to hire us. It runs on example data.

Status
Working demo
Type of software
AI & automation

The business

A precision machining company that inspects parts against customer drawings and sends first-article inspection reports.

The problem

  • Someone had to place a numbered bubble next to every characteristic on the PDF drawing by hand, then type each one into a spreadsheet.
  • Their main worry was how accurately tolerances and geometric callouts would carry into the spreadsheet.

The standout feature

Ballooned in one pass

We loaded a public test drawing from NIST, the US standards agency, and pressed Balloon this drawing. On that drawing, all 69 listed items were read correctly. Drawings where dimensions are drawn as lines with no text still cannot be read.

What we built

  • Open the customer's PDF drawing and the app finds and balloons the characteristics: notes, dimensions and geometric tolerance frames.
  • A characteristics list with renumbering in reading order and a CSV export.
  • Reads the measuring machine's inspection reports and fills in results by serial number.
  • First-article inspection reports exported to Excel, one workbook per serial.
  • Revision compare that shows what changed between two prints.
  • Bill of materials, special processes and functional tests per part.
  • Runs on the shop's own network, with seats per user.

How it works differently

BeforeNow
Bubbles placed by handPlaced by the app
Typing each characteristic into a spreadsheetExported to Excel
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After we build it

Who fixes problems
We do. One year of bug fixes is standard in every contract. If something we built breaks, we fix it.
What you own
You own the code, the database and the accounts it runs on.
Your data
Your data moves with you. It sits in a database you own, so it is never locked inside our system or anyone else's.
Your team
Your team is trained on it. We walk your staff through the screens they will use.
If we disappear
You hold everything another developer needs to pick it up: the code, the database and the accounts.
Who you talk to
We are a US team based in Florida. The person who leads your build is the person you talk to.

Who builds it

  • A US team based in Florida.
  • The person who leads your build is the one you talk to, start to finish.
  • We copy what you like about your current software, fix what you don't, and you own the result.
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