### Importing a Mitutoyo Text File

A Mitutoyo Text File (TXT) file is a simple text file containing measurement data in a format used by Mitutoyo. Some third party tools export measurement data into this type of text file. The Mututoyo Text File option allows you to import those data files into your database.

1. Once you have an appropriate text file, on the Choose a data file screen of the wizard, choose the Mitutoyo Text File option.

2. Click Browse, and select the .txt file.

3. Click Next. The Mitutoyo text file components screen appears.

4. Use the Header lines and Keyword Column lists to specify the file header and keyword column. Use the Refresh button to visually see in the preview window of rows and columns how your changes will affect the import.

5. Click Next. The Customize mitutoyo product screen appears.

6. At this point, in order to complete the mitutoyo text import, you need to define product information for the imported text file. You can do this by either importing an existing product file or by creating your own. The product files are actually just XML files with the .mpf (mitutoyo product file) filename extension.

7. Use the command buttons next to Defined product list to import, reorganize and manage project files. Once you have sufficient product information a green check mark appears next to the item in the Defined product list. Items that still need information have a red X.

   - Up - Moves the selected product up in the Defined product list.

   - Down - Moves the selected product down in the Defined product list.

   - Export - Exports the defined product as an MPF file (mitutoyo product file).

   - Import - Imports an MPF file (mitutoyo product file) into the defined product list.

   - New - Defines new Mitutoyo product information.

   - Edit - Edits the selected product file in the Defined product list. This lets you remap cells defining product information and edit feature and dimension variables in the text file.

   - Delete - Deletes the selected product file in the Defined product list.

8. Click Finish to import the data.

9. The Performing Operation... screen shows details of the import process. Click Cancel to close the wizard. Once the dialog box closes, the imported data will be available for selection from within DataPage+.

Creating / Editing Mitutoyo Product Information

The New or Edit buttons display the Mitutoyo Product dialog box. Use this dialog box to define or edit product information. It contains two tabs, a General tab lets you define needed product information and a Variables tab that lets you define feature and dimension variables.

General:

General Tab

Use the General tab to type a product name and then select columns (A,B,C and so on) and rows (1,2,3, and so on) to locate specific cells of data to assign to the available fields in the tab.

Variables:

Variables Tab

Use the Variables tab to create or edit feature or dimension variables.

The available buttons are:

- New - Enables the necessary boxes to define a new feature variable.

- Delete - Deletes the variable from the list.

- Edit - Enables the necessary boxes to edit the selected feature variable.

- OK - Closes the Mitutoyo Product dialog box, saving all your product information and variable changes.

- Cancel - Closes the dialog box without saving anything.

The available boxes and lists are:

- Feature Name - Type the feature name for the variable. Something like PNT1, CIR4, CYL2 and so forth.

- Dimension Name - Type the dimension name for the variable.

- Axis - Type an axis code to define the variable's axis (such as D, M, TP, X, Y, Z and so forth).

- Nominal - Define the nominal value for the variable.

- Upper Tolerance / Lower Tolerance - Type the tolerance values for the variable.

- Measured (Col) - Select the column of data the software will use for this variable's measured data; then use the Rows map (keywords) area to select the rows from the column of data you will use to define this variable's measured values.

- Rows map (Keywords) - Once you have filled in the information above, this area becomes available for you to map specific rows to the column defined in measured col. This results in a specific field of data to use.

A newly defined variable will look something like this:

Sample Feature Name