IIGDT Newsletter September 2025
 
 

“Quality Starts in Design”

Question: Would you say yes to any of the following:

  • Do we have engineering drawings which do not optimally represent functional design intent?
  • Do we continue to have multiple revisions to engineering drawings which impact all departments and delay time to market?
  • Are we rejecting parts that work or accepting parts that do not work?

If you said yes the any of the above items, is it possible some of these could have been eliminated or at least minimized if the designer had a tool that could significantly improve their confidence in design requirements prior to releasing the drawings? Kotem Technologies has developed a software tool that provides a direct CAD-Bridge for Proofing and Optimization of GD&T syntax. The initial launch of this CAD-Bridge concentrates on utilization with “Evolve Creo-Bridge to Design.”

creo Bridge

One of the design challenges is taking a busy part and applying clean syntax throughout the entire drawing without making any mistakes. Having a robust tool available that will interact with the CAD file directly, highlight areas of opportunity to improve and once approved by the designer, make the approved changes automatically back in the CAD file.

The linked video will highlight:

  • Common Errors
  • Standard Violations
  • Warning Messages highlighting possible redundancies
  • Recommendations
  1. Highlight “Errors” due to missing datum references in applicable FCF’s
  2. Highlight “Standard Violations” due to FCF’s referencing considered feature modifiers and datum feature modifiers for non-features of size.
  3. Make visible “Warnings” which will highlight possible redundancies such as multiple controls for the same considered feature.
  4. Offer “Recommendations” related to optimizing syntax due to inconsistent application of datum feature modifiers and applying “form” controls to datum features to ensure consideration and reasonable control of the magnitude of mobility the feature can have in relationship to the datum.

If the video preview does not show, click here.

Once you’ve reviewed the video, if you feel this could help improve efficiencies at your company then contact IIGDT to arrange a trial version of the software. Complete the following form. IIGDT EVOLVE Request Info.


 
IIGDT Newsletter September 2025
 

Questions to Ask Your Engineering Team?

  • Do we have engineering drawings which do not optimally represent functional design intent?
  • Do we continue to have multiple revisions to engineering drawings which impact all departments and delay time to market and time to invoice?
  • Do we have daily inefficiencies with employees not trained adequately to "optimally" do their job tasks?
  • Do we have ongoing confusion and costly reactions by design, manufacturing and quality due to invalid or questionable measurement results?
  • Do we have challenges in meeting statistical capability expectations (Cpk)?
  • Are we rejecting parts that work or accepting parts that do not work?

Asking the right questions ensures that everyone in the engineering team understands the full implication to the process chain of their actions. Understanding the proper interpretation or intent of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) is not equally shared....

Read the full article at iigdt.com.

Contact Dr. Hetland to discuss bringing these training programs into your house.


What our Customers are saying...

The success of IIGDT is built on Dr. Hetland's 35+ years of proven experience. Dr. Hetland has developed a unified approach to bridge the gap between Design, Manufacturing and Metrology. The bottom-line goal is to build upon the concept of proper Design Intent to improve your cost of business through greater efficiency in engineering, manufacturing, and improved quality.

And our customers agree.

Click here to read some of the Testimonials form companies around the world.

 

IIGDT Seminar Series : Oct. 2026 to Feb. 2027
Minnesota, California and Oregon Seminar Locations
Minneapolis, MN EVOLVE Suite Workshop / Training
October 12-15, 2026  
   
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
November 3-7, 2026 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   
Minneapolis, MN Intro to Mechanical Drawings & GD&T
February 1-5, 2027 GD&T—Intermediate Principles
  GD&T—Advanced Applications
   

If you would like to host a Seminar Series within your community or your company, please contact Dr. Greg Hetland for more information.

For our full schedule, visit our GD&T Seminar Schedule Page!


Do you have the evaluation tools you need?

SmartProfile® is used by manufacturing professionals all over the world to evaluate measurement data for geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing compliance.

SmartProfile takes point clouds from part measurements performed on any measurement system, merges the points with the nominal CAD model of the part, and automatically and simultaneously evaluates the GD&T. SmartProfile is fully compliant with each of the three user-selectable tolerance standards: ASME Y14.5-1994, ASME Y14.5-2009, ASME Y14.5-2018 or ISO 1101.

IIGDT has partnered with Kotem to provide sales and training of SmartProfile.

SmartProfile

Click here to visit IIGDT SmartProfile page.


   
 
Dr. Greg Hetland

Phone: (612) 670-9311
Fax: (612) 395-5405

greg-hetland@iigdt.com

IIGDT Home IIGDT

28549 N 127th Ave
Peoria, AZ 85383-5394

iigdt.com