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CAD Integration

Always up-to-date and accurate drawing dimensions for your quality inspections. Reliable and efficient – for high and consistent quality at all times.

The "CAD Integration" Module from Babtec

Computer-aided design applications (CAD for short) are standard in many manufacturing companies. CAD software helps design products and simulate their behavior in a wide variety of application situations. With our software solution, you automatically stamp the drawing dimensions and use the resulting data in a time-efficient and -effective way to improve the quality of the products.

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Actuality

thanks to the guided drawing dimension comparison

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Actuality

thanks to the guided drawing dimension comparison

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Comprehensive Use

of your CAD drawings for quality inspections

New in Babtec 8: More Efficiency with 3D CAD Models

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With Babtec 8, we are enabling the use of three-dimensional CAD models in our software for the first time: 3D files exported from your CAD solution can now be loaded into the Babtec software straight away.

This means that you no longer have to derive 2D drawings from your existing 3D models in order to use them, for example, for your quality inspections. You can align, zoom and rotate three-dimensional models on your screen as you wish and thus identify all the required dimensions. This gives you an even better overview of your products. 

A significant advantage of our improved CAD integration in Babtec 8: If a 3D file contains further product specifications in the form of Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), our software recognizes and processes these directly "behind the scenes" during import. This makes the 3D model the central point for all necessary information, the so-called single point of truth. The effort required for data maintenance is therefore also reduced.

If a 3D model does not contain PMI, you can still use a 2D drawing. In this case, you can easily manage 3D model and 2D drawing within a shared drawing folder. As usual, you benefit from the automatic stamping of drawings and the intuitive operation of our CAD integration. The drawing dimensions obtained can be made available to other modules of the Babtec software, for example as part of an FMEA or part approval processes, without media discontinuity.

By supporting numerous additional file formats of common CAD software, including standard formats such as STEP or PDF, but also manufacturer-specific formats such as those from Siemens, Dassault Systems and PTC, the upcoming version of our CAD integration will fit even better into your business processes.

Would you like to find out more about the highlights of our latest software generation?

Create Inspection Data from CAD Drawings

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CAD-Integration: Automatische Erfassung und Stempelung der Zeichnungsmaße

Drawing information are an essential component of quality inspections: with our CAD integration, you can convert product characteristics and dimensions from CAD drawings into quality-relevant inspection data for inspection planning at the push of a button. If the drawings are available in a standardized CAD exchange format (2D DXF, DWG format), inspection characteristics with their characteristic name, drawing dimension and the upper as well as the lower nominal limits can be generated directly from the drawing data. Our automatic detection of drawing dimension also analyzes any text information contained in a PDF file that you could also mark up using a PDF reader. In this way, dimension texts are reliably recognized and prepared as processable drawing dimensions – and without additional OCR software.

Compare CAD Drawing Versions

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Comparison of different drawing statuses

The function “Drawing Dimension Comparison” provides an assistant that enables the comparison of different drawing statuses. It guides you through 7 steps in which you can edit unchanged, moved, changed, omitted and added dimensions. In each step information is available, which explains what happens in this step and how the available tools work. Since the assistant supports you in all steps of the comparison, you get an optimal comparison result with just a few clicks.

Ihre Vorteile im Überblick

  • Automatically recognize and manage digitized drawing dimensions with our CAD integration and make them available to other modules
  • Integrated CAD viewer for interactive use of CAD drawings in other modules
  • Use of an import wizard for easy generation of inspection characteristics in inspection plans based on drawing dimensions
  • Guided comparison of CAD drawings to update your drawing dimensions using a wizard
  • Support for 2D DXF, DWG, PDF and common graphics formats

For more information, have a look at the CAD integration product sheet in the download area.

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From Medium-Sized Family Businesses to International Corporations

Your Contact to Us

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Contact Our Sales Team

Would you like more information about our products, perhaps even in a personal consultation? Then please feel free to contact us!

 

You can reach us at the following times:

Monday–Thursday, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

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Support Inquiries

Are you already using our software and need support? Then please contact our support team directly.

 

Our colleagues will be happy to help you during our service hours:

Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.