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Creating Bubble drawings

Creating Bubble drawings

Creating Bubble drawings

(OP)
Does anyone use any kind of software to create bubble drawings from PDF's? I have a job coming up that has a 30 pg print and will require around 1500 bubbles. Ive never had to do anything this large before so I just did it by hand but I hope that's not my only option here. Any input, software or other method, is appreciated. Thanks

RE: Creating Bubble drawings

There is software like http://www.inspectionxpert.com/ that can take PDF drawing files, add the inspection bubbles and numbers and automatically create inspection report forms. I have never used it myself.

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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.

RE: Creating Bubble drawings

(OP)
dgallup,

InspectionXpert is amazing. I took a 30 page print with over 1600 bubbles and did it in a day...and printed out the 101 page excel inspection document sheet to go with it. This software saved me I would guess around 40 hours on this one job. Im not sure it could have even been done by hand. Thanks so much.

RE: Creating Bubble drawings

Glad to hear it worked well for you. I have tried to get our QA department to try it but they are mired in the 20th century.

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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.

RE: Creating Bubble drawings

(OP)
Have they had it quoted? I think it was very reasonable for how powerful it is. They will give you a free trial for 15 days with full access to everything. It was an easy sell for us. Im pretty sure it won over a new client for us...they had never had a vedor complete the First Article requirement on account of their large drawings and specific bubble drawing guidelines. It would have been impossible to do by hand. For example, I thought I was done after 1685 bubbles but my QC manager just told me I missed one! Before I would have had to restart, now I just insert the bubble where I need it and InspectioXpert renumbers everything for me. It takes a 20 min bubble drawing to just a couple once you are used to the software. Its amazing.

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