You can set the colors of your balloons globally instead of the usual default green.  Access this option on the menu item Tools\Colors\Balloons Complete.

Use the text mark up feature to annotate your drawing. This gives you the ability to place text anywhere on your drawing but does not make any changes to your underlying drawing.  You can control the size, color and font…

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Use the white out function (CTRL-W) to hide the snap rectangles and balloons you created on the drawing. This helps you determine what ballooning you missed and allows you to renumber balloons for their proper sequence.

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Use our requirements or results batch edit icon function to enter data on multiple characteristics with just a few clicks.  For requirements or results, click on the rows in the BoC where you want to make data changes.  You can…

Use the Transparent Balloon option so that users can see “through” the balloon to view the underlying data.  Click on the menu item Drawing / Balloon Properties / Manually Choose Color of Balloon / HSL tab and then the Transparency…

Use the autoballoon area option to select a specific area of view for auto recognition of balloon data and set up the specific requirements, with minimal user interactions.

You can try out any of our modules free for 30 days with no credit card required.  These are full versions of the software and not locked down in any way.  Send an email to sales@discussoftware.com for more information (restrictions…

Available in our new DISCUS release, 9.2.0, you can use the template to gather your results from anywhere and then upload the results into the DISCUS results module.  This module will validate the results against the requirements with a red/yellow/green…

Do you have a large list of gauges or tooling that you don’t want to add manually?  You can import these lists into DISCUS – Just create a text list of your items, one item per line.  Go to Configure Custom Fields…

Here are a few links to recent quality management developments in the Medical Device Manufacturing industry. US FDA Finalizes 510(k) Exemptions for Some Class I and II Medical Devices The US Food and Drug Administration has finalized plans to exempt…