Powerful, Easy-to-Use, Lightning-Fast
FAI Software & Drawing Ballooning Software
Balloon drawings and build Control Plans in minutes. Extract notes, dimensions, tolerances, and GD&T. Import CMM data. Generate First Article Inspection (FAI) reports in AS9102 and other formats.
Cut FAI cycle time from days to hours. Eliminate manual errors. Accelerate new product introduction.
500+ CUSTOMERS. 30+ COUNTRIES. 20+ INDUSTRIES.
AEROSPACE & INDUSTRIAL
AEROSPACE MACHINING
PRECISION MACHINING
MEDICAL DEVICES
AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT
ADVANCED CERAMICS
SPEED-UP DRAWING BALLOONING. SAVE HOURS OF FIRST ARTICLE TIME.
HUGE TIME SAVER
“Recently we had a spike in new business with over 60 parts needing First Articles. With the help of 1factory (first article inspection software) we were able to bubble the drawings, program our CMM to the bubble drawing and directly download the data right onto the First Article form. We were able to complete this task of First Articles meeting all deadlines and shipping dates. It was a huge time saver and it made our Quality department shine!”
B. Terry, Quality Manager, Kalman Manufacturing
54 FAIs IN THE FIRST WEEK
“1factory has been a game changer for us". Within the first week, Able Tool successfully delivered 54 FAIs to their customer and realized significant productivity gains. By the end of the first month, Able Tool had delivered over 200 FAIs and decided to adopt 1factory as their internal Quality Control software, transforming their manufacturing operations.
P. Hayes, President, Able Tool
PDF DRAWING AUTO-BALLOONING & FAI SOFTWARE FEATURES
1GD&T (Form)
Instantly identify and auto-balloon all GD&T features on your drawings including true position, perpendicularity, cylindricilty, straightness, angularity, parallelism, flatness, surface profile, runout and more.
2Dimensions (Size)
Instantly identify and auto-balloon all features of size (i.e. dimensions) including linear-dimension, diameter, radius, angle, chamfer, counterbore, countersink, and more.
3Basic & Reference
Instantly identify and (optionally) balloon Basic Features (needed for true position calculations), and & Reference Features (useful for calculations).
4Notes
Instantly identify and distinguish notes (highlighted in yellow by 1factory) from GD&T and Dimensions (highlighted in blue by 1factory). Point-and-click to capture notes. Group multiple lines into a single note, or break notes into multiple requirements.
5Sheet & Zone, Leader Lines
Automatically capture the exact location - sheet & zone - for every balloon. Add leader lines with just a single click to clearly identify features in congested drawings.
6Default Tolerances
With 1factory's FAI software, users can automatically populate tolerances based on the number of decimal places for US drawings, or based on the size of the feature for mm (ISO 2768) drawings. Easily set up custom tolerance tables, or use the pre-loaded ISO coarse, medium, and fine tolerance tables.
7Ops Sheets or Process Drawings
Add Ops Sheets - Manufacturing Process Drawings - to your ballooned drawing package. Auto-balloon customer drawings and each op-sheet to build a complete end-to-end control plan in minutes.
8Convert Units (inch to mm, and mm to inch)
Convert dimensions from inches to mm or vice versa with a single click. Capture measurements in your shop's preferred unit of measure and convert back to your customer's units for reporting with a single-click.
9Compare Drawing Revisions
Instantly detect and highlight all changes made between drawing revisions. Detect changes such as added, deleted, or modified characteristics, including updated nominals and tolerances, as well as inserted or deleted notes.
10Import CMM & Vision System Data
Capture data from digital gages (micrometers, calipers, height-gages) with a single click. Import measurement data for hundreds of parameters from a wide variety of CMMs - Zeiss, Mitutoyo, PCDMIS, Renishaw, Microvu, Keyence and more - in seconds. Eliminate data-entry-errors.
11Create FAI, AS9102 Reports
1factory's FAI Software outputs a fully-finished First Article Inspection Report in standard or AS9102 format or Net-Inspect format.
12Partial or Full FAIRs
Create Full First Article Inspection Reports for initial production runs, and partial FAIRs for subsequent drawing revisions with 1factory's FAI Software.
13Assembly FAIRs
Link Component and Assembly FAIRs to create an Assembly First Article Inspection Report.
EXAMPLES OF DRAWING FEATURES RECOGNIZED BY 1FACTORY'S POWERFUL OCR
Perpendicularity
Position
Cylindricity
Concentricity
Flatness
Surface Profile
Circular Runout
Parallelism
Total Runout
Diameter
Angle
Radius
Depth
Countersink
Counterbore
Reference Dimension
Basic Dimension
Descriptor
Unequal Tolerance
Equal Tolerance
Converted Units
Limit Tolerance
Vertical Dimension
Dimensions at an Angle
CASE STUDIES
Next Intent - Aerospace, Space, Defense
Next Intent is a world-class precision manufacturer, serving the space, defense, aerospace and semiconductor industries. The parts they craft are critical to the success of billion-dollar, multi-decade missions — where a single failure isn't just costly, it's catastrophic.
Notable projects include components for THREE Mars missions, and the revolutionary Red Camera Assembly for the Giant Magellan Telescope and more.
Next Intent picked 1factory to meet its challenging quality requirements. With 1factory, Next intent has unified quality planning, FAI, inspections, gage managements, and quality records into one seamless ecosystem, automating paperwork, eliminating errors, and helping deliver the highest quality parts to customers.
"The Software worked just like the demo!" Rodney B. President & CEO.
"We were going to go with another company's software. The implementation time was nine months. That was too long. With 1factory, they were getting it to work within the first day. Within twenty minutes, I had bubble-printed the plans and inspection sheets".
EASY TO USE. LIGHTNING FAST. SECURE & RELIABLE
INTUITIVE DESIGN & LIGHTNING FAST SPEED
1Factory's intuitive interface and streamlined workflows make training effortless - most teams achieve full deployment in under two hours with zero operational disruption.
Speed is non-negotiable on the shop floor. Every interaction - from data entry to ballooning to search - happens instantaneously. Your manufacturing operations run at full pace, never waiting on software. With 24/7/365 global availability and real-time analytics, 1Factory keeps your quality operations moving at the speed of production.
SECURITY & RELIABILITY
1Factory meets the security standards that matter to regulated manufacturers: ITAR-compliant hosting on AWS GovCloud, full NIST 800-171 compliance, and SOC 2 Type 2 certification. Your quality data stays protected and audit-ready.
Over the past decade, 1Factory has maintained >99.99% uptime - because we understand that your quality system can't afford downtime. Data encryption, daily database snapshots, and redundant file storage ensure your critical quality records are always protected and recoverable.