Build!IT Desktop

Build!IT Desktop is a CAD-to-part inspection software that enables quick and easy dimensional verification of manufactured parts and assemblies. Build!IT's advanced analysis and reporting capabilities combine measurement data from multiple sources to produce detailed graphical and textual reports that are used to quickly identify manufacturing and production trends.

Highlights

Intuitive 3D Workflow

Build!IT removes the need for spreadsheet calculations and the use of manual gauges by digitally collecting, sharing and analyzing inspection information. Inspection data is embedded in the 3D model, eliminating the potential for error caused by misinterpretation and mistranslation of information. Results are easy to share and communicate enterprise-wide.

Instant Productivity

Build!IT Desktop is easy to learn and to use, resulting in a faster inspection cycle and greater overall productivity because it implements:

  • A friendly user interface
  • Color coded graphical reporting
  • Graphical annotations that contain the results from an inspection
  • Browse and select model objects graphically, from a tree view or a spreadsheet.

Cost-Effective Decision-Making

Interactive on-screen inspection feedback enables quick decision making and saves production spending before out-of-tolerance components move through assembly. Comprehensive graphical and textual reporting enables thorough analysis of complex information, helping to identify and resolve manufacturing issues early in the process and at lower cost. Complete inspection information is archived in a single database to be retrieved and reviewed days, weeks or years later.

Greater Team Collaboration

Thorough, easy-to-understand reports, including color-coded charts and GD&T, where information is easily shared and communicated enterprise-wide.

Build!IT seamlessly supports native 3D models from CATIA, NX and other design software Build!IT encourages greater communication between engineering and the shop floor. Different teams collaboratively implement design changes with direct part-to-model comparisons.

Features

CAD-to-Part Graphical Inspection

  • Surface and curve deviation plotting with tolerance-based or rainbow color scales
  • Graphical reports with user-defined call-outs or tabular reports
  • Automatic probe radius compensation

Geometry/Feature Evaluation

  • Geometry-based feature inspection with real-time deviation feedback
  • Conventional dimensional-tolerance inspection
  • Analysis tools for feature fitting to point clouds

Model-based GD&T Inspection

  • Model-based GD&T inspection with support for MEA, DML, and AIMS import/export
  • Color-coded tolerance call-outs indicate pass-fail conditions on the display
  • Use predefined measurement plans or measure closest feature to the probe

Reporting and Annotation

  • Customizable tabular and graphical reports in PDF and Excel formats
  • Measure distances, angles and deviations directly on the model
  • Graphical call-outs for points, curves and surface deviation, distances and angles
  • Device alignment reports
  • Geometry fit and comparison to nominal report
  • GD&T reporting with evaluation of tolerances

Archive Measurement Projects

  • Measurement data and details are all recorded in a single database
  • Fully traceable measurement processes
  • Retrieve inspection projects years later to reconstruct and understand previous work