Automatic detection
Scans the drawing to identify dimensions, tolerances, GD&T symbols, notes and critical-to-quality attributes, creating a unique characteristic ID for each element.
Digital Quality 4.0 · Automated Drawing QC
Auto Ballooning — hours of marking up, done in minutes.
Automatically identifies, numbers and extracts dimensions from engineering drawings — eliminating the tedious manual marking that consumes hours of engineer time on every new part.
Auto Ballooning · How it works
From drawing to inspection table.
- 1STEP 1Import drawing
- 2STEP 2Select areas
- 3STEP 3Start ballooning
- 4RESULTReview & export
Drop your drawing here
PDF — read in your browser, never uploaded
Start with the sample drawing
Click to load it and see how ballooning works
Step 1
Import the drawing
Load the drawing
Bring in your own drawing and balloon it. The file is read inside your browser — it is never uploaded and never leaves your computer.
This walkthrough uses a sample bracket drawing with two views, notes and a title block.
Works best on a PDF exported from CAD, where the dimension text is real text. A scanned sheet has no text to read, so use Manual map on it.
BR-2041_sample.pdfImporting…
Step 2
Select what to balloon
Drag a box around each view you want ballooned. Anything outside — notes, title block — is left alone.
No areas selected yet.
Extracted characteristics0 found
Scanning selected areas…
| # | Characteristic | Nominal | Tol. | Actions |
|---|
No characteristics were found inside the selected area. Choose “Edit selection” and draw the box around a view.
The problem
Manual ballooning is slow, and it is wrong more often than anyone admits.
Marking up a drawing by hand takes a qualified engineer hours, introduces transcription errors, and has to be repeated in full every time a revision arrives — because there is no reliable way to tell what changed.
The cost is not only the time. A missed characteristic is a missed inspection, and a missed inspection is a part that ships without being checked.
80%
Reduction in ballooning time
1
Click to re-number a revision
Web-based, drag-and-drop. No installation required — upload a drawing and the characteristics table is generated for you.
Key features
What the software does.
Smart numbering
Intelligent sequencing with customisable formats — prefixes, suffixes and grouping — plus CTQ highlighting and one-click re-numbering for drawing revisions.
Characteristics table generation
Auto-generates the inspection table with balloon numbers, tolerance values, measurement methods and required instruments.
Revision management
Detects dimension changes between versions, provides side-by-side comparison and maintains revision history with impact analysis.
Documentation output
FAI and PPAP report generation with AS9102 and VDA standard compliance, using customisable templates.
Connected integration
Links directly with Control Plans, PFMEA/DFMEA, MSA, SPC and PPAP within the MAPP ZEN ecosystem.
Supported formats
Works with the drawings you already have
PDFTIFFDWG / DXFScanned drawingsMulti-sheet documents
Interface
Nothing to install
A web-based platform with drag-and-drop upload. Engineers can start using it the same day, without an IT deployment project.
Business benefits
What it changes.
Hours back per drawing
Ballooning that took most of a day is completed in minutes, freeing engineers for work that needs judgement.
Error elimination
Characteristics extracted once, consistently, instead of transcribed repeatedly across documents.
Accelerated APQP
New part introduction moves faster because quality documentation stops being the bottleneck.
Compliance alignment
Output structured for AIAG and IATF expectations, and formatted to AS9102 or VDA where required.
Related
Part of a connected quality thread
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