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Make manufacturing requirements easier to understand

A shape shows what a part looks like. Product manufacturing information (PMI) adds dimensions, tolerances, and notes that explain how it should be made and checked. PMI View displays this information with the 3D model for design, manufacturing, and inspection teams.

Help users find a requirement, inspect its related geometry, and understand it in context.

How it works

Load manufacturing information from a supported source and connect each annotation with its geometry. Build a readable view of dimensions, symbols, and notes. Users can select a requirement to inspect its associated feature, or select a feature to find the information attached to it.

Move from a callout to the right feature

Connect annotations with their associated faces and edges. Selecting a dimension can highlight the relevant area; selecting geometry can reveal information attached to it.

This saves repeated searching during design reviews, inspection planning, and shop-floor discussions.

Keep busy views readable

Present linear, angular, and radial dimensions alongside datum references, feature-control frames, surface-finish symbols, and notes. Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) describes requirements such as a hole’s position or a face’s flatness. Arrange these callouts for selected viewing positions so people can focus on requirements that matter to their task.

A review tool can show a selected group of annotations, while an inspection application can bring a particular feature into focus.

Support model-based definition and supplier review

Model-based definition (MBD) keeps manufacturing requirements with a 3D product model. A review tool can use PMI to help people understand which dimension, datum, or tolerance belongs to a feature. This is useful when design, manufacturing, and inspection teams need to discuss the same requirement across different applications.

Customers may specify ISO 1101 for geometrical tolerancing, ISO 16792 for digital product definition, or ASME Y14.5 for dimensioning and tolerancing. Required symbols and annotation types depend on the standard and edition used by your customer.

Keep displayed callouts and usable data together

Graphical PMI describes how dimensions, symbols, and notes appear. Semantic PMI stores values and relationships that software can use. A review application may need selectable callouts; an inspection tool may also need values linked to the measured features.

STEP AP242, part of ISO 10303, is relevant to model-based definition exchange. The selected translator and source file determine which PMI information reaches your application. Showing annotations by task or selected feature can keep a dense model readable.

Give manufacturing and quality teams a shared reference

A planner may identify a hole in a model while an inspector refers to its tolerance in a separate drawing. Time goes into confirming that both people mean the same feature, especially when a part contains several similar details.

A PMI-enabled review application can show a selected requirement and highlight its related geometry. Manufacturing staff can focus on the callouts needed for a process discussion; quality staff can inspect the associated dimensions and datums. Task-specific annotation views keep unrelated information from crowding the review.

Your application can connect those selections with planning or inspection records. Teams can discuss a requirement from the same model view. When later tools need numeric values and relationships, include semantic PMI in the exchange requirement alongside visible callouts.

Bring PMI into your product

Use appropriate STEP AP242, JT, or other CAD translators to obtain graphical presentations and semantic information. Choose an exchange route that carries the data your workflow needs.

Add PMI Editor for authoring or Advanced HLR for connected drawing views. Show us your manufacturing review process and the annotations your users work with.