PlusMinus QCdrawing intelligence
Built by a manufacturer who got tired of watching this done by hand.

It reads your prints and writes up your inspection paperwork.

Upload a drawing. PlusMinus pulls every dimension and tolerance off it, numbers them, balloons them, converts metric over to inch the way a machinist actually writes it, and fills out your inspection forms. Everything stays editable, and you export when it's the way you want it.

A sample drawing, ballooned automatically — no signup.
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Somebody still has to read every print.

Before you can inspect a part, someone sits down with a drawing and reads every dimension and tolerance off it. They number them, work out conversions, decide what gets checked and how often, and type all of it into an inspection sheet. It's skilled work, it takes someone who knows what they're looking at, and it gets done over again every time a print is revised. That's what PlusMinus does for you.

How it works

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It reads your print
Upload a drawing as a PDF, vector or scanned. PlusMinus reads it and pulls out every dimension, tolerance, GD&T callout and note.
2
It balloons and converts
It numbers each callout and drops a balloon on it. Anything in metric gets converted over to inch the way a machinist actually writes it, tolerances and all.
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You decide what gets checked
Click a balloon to mark it critical or major. Then set up your plan. Decide what gets checked in process, what gets sampled and how often, what gets checked at final, and whether you want a first piece. Save that setup and reuse it on your next drawing.
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Out comes your paperwork
You get inspection forms in Excel and PDF, with blanks to write measurements into and lines for your operator and inspector to sign. Plus a clean ballooned PDF and a spreadsheet of your data.

What you get back

A ballooned PDF
Real vector, numbered balloons right on your print. Hand it straight to your floor.
An inspection form
Excel and PDF, a row for every characteristic, sample stages, and sign-off lines for your operator and inspector.
A spreadsheet
CSV or Excel, plus a Net-Inspect-compatible export carrying AS9102 characteristic data.

It tells you what to double-check.

Every dimension comes back with a confidence score. Anything it's less sure of gets flagged and sorted to the top of your review list, so you check those first and confirm them with one click.

Who it's for

If you inspect to a print, this is for you. Doesn't much matter what you make. Machining, fabrication, stamping, molding, medical device, aerospace and automotive supply, contract manufacturing. If somebody in your building turns drawings into inspection sheets by hand, that's the work to hand off.

Can't put your prints in the cloud?

Some drawings can't leave the building. Customer IP, export-controlled work, or a contract that plainly doesn't allow an upload. Linked Operations can build you an on-premise install that runs inside your own network instead. It's a custom build rather than something you download, and it carries no compliance certification of its own. Tell us what your contract actually requires and we'll tell you straight whether we can meet it.

Talk to us about on-premise

Your first three drawings are on us.

Nothing is licensed per seat. Pick a monthly plan with a set number of drawings included, or buy a prepaid pack and skip the subscription. It runs in your browser, so there's nothing to install.