Describe your welds, stages, measurements, and criteria. Makeform creates a welding inspection form with weld IDs, structured results, photos, and pass, fail, or rework findings.
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Sample prompts for welding inspectors
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your inspection plan, and review the generated structure before publishing.
Audience
Shop and site inspectors checking structural welds
Format
Mobile checklist with measurements and disposition
Prompt size
255 chars
Example inspection structure
Mobile checklist with measurements and disposition
Project, drawing, location, and weld ID
Joint, process, material, and welder ID
Visual inspection checklist
Specified and measured weld dimensions
Disposition, photos, and inspector sign-off
Suggested result tags
Accepted
Rework required
Hold for review
Separate required and measured values so reviewers can spot an out-of-range result.
Step 1
Identify
project, joint, weld ID, drawing, and inspector
Step 2
Inspect
visual checks, dimensions, and observed discontinuities
Step 3
Decide
pass, fail, hold, or rework against your criteria
Step 4
Close
repair evidence, reinspection result, and dated record
Inspection records that stay usable
Keep identification, measurements, findings, evidence, and disposition together so reviewers can trace every result to a weld.
Require weld ID, drawing, location, joint, welder, and stage before results.
Place specified values beside actual size, length, reinforcement, undercut, gap, or alignment.
Open repair owner, date, location, and reinspection fields when a weld fails.
Adapt to the inspection point
Choose the closest workflow, then add requirements from current drawings, procedures, and the inspection plan.
Record preparation, bevel, root opening, alignment, backing, tacks, and material.
Show root-pass, interpass, temperature, sequence, and hold-point questions by stage.
Record profile, size, completeness, surface condition, discontinuities, measurements, and photos.
Link the finding, repair evidence, reinspection, and final disposition.
Build the form
Give the generator the identifiers, checks, measurement units, result choices, and follow-up path your team already uses. Then review the generated structure before publishing it.
Name the work, weld identifiers, stages, units, observations, and result choices.
Edit references, tolerances, categories, and instructions for the current drawing and plan.
Submit one pass and one failure; check branching, uploads, fields, and units.
Notify the responsible reviewer and send structured results into your follow-up process.
Form vs notes vs static file
A notebook captures what one inspector remembers to write. A static document standardizes layout. An online form can also require identifiers, branch into repair questions, and keep evidence with the result.
Field guide
The exact checks depend on the joint, process, inspection stage, drawings, and project criteria. These six sections create a practical base without hiding important results in one large comments box.
Record identity
Capture enough context to find the weld and its project references later. Keep identifiers in separate fields.
Weld details
Production details help reviewers interpret results and filter records. Use the terms in existing shop or site documents.
Visual checks
Give each observed condition its own check. Keep checklist answers distinct from the overall disposition.
Measurements
Pair each target with an actual reading, unit, and location. Add instrument details when required.
Evidence
Require photos and marked locations on failed results so repair teams can find the area.
Disposition
Keep the finding, reviewer disposition, repair, and reinspection as distinct events in one traceable path.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for inspectors, quality leads, fabricators, and contractors building a clearer weld record.
It identifies a weld and records stage, observations, measurements, evidence, and disposition for fit-up, in-process, final, repair, or reinspection work.
Include project, weld ID, drawing, joint, material, process, welder, stage, checks, measurements with units, photos, inspector, date, and result. Add repair and reinspection fields for failures.
Yes. Stage selection can reveal fit-up fields for bevels, gap, alignment, backing, and tacks or later fields for profile, dimensions, photos, and disposition.
Define result choices separately from checks. For an unaccepted result, require location, extent, evidence, owner, date, and reinspection.
Yes. Add overview, close-up, marked-location, and repair image uploads with brief instructions. Photos supplement observations and measurements.
Yes. Pair the specified value with the actual reading, unit, and location. Use separate fields for multiple readings.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. Review and test the form before use.
No. It organizes collection but does not choose criteria or decide acceptance. The project team supplies drawings, procedures, stages, and reviewer roles.
Give every weld finding a traceable record.
