Inspection Planner: Introduction

PC-DMIS™ Inspection Planner (IP) works in conjunction with your CAD software package and PC-DMIS to aid the Design Engineer or Quality Engineer in designing a plan that determines which features of the geometry and GD&T/dimension to use in the inspection process.

 PC-DMIS Inspection Planner version 1.1 works in conjunction with PC-DMIS version 4.3.

Inspection Planner (IP) uses the PC-DMIS CAD engine, providing access to IGES, STEP, and the other translators, as well as PC-DMIS’s supported Direct CAD Interfaces™. This gives you wide coverage of available CAD engines and systems. You can save the Inspection Plan directly into a CAD file or you can output it to a text file. You can then use PC-DMIS to automatically generate a part program from an imported inspection plan. This part program can be sued for either a CMM or CNC machine tool for in-process inspection.

This help file will walk you through the steps to create an Inspection Plan using your CAD data and how to use IP commands inside PC-DMIS to automatically generate a PC-DMIS part program.

This documentation covers these topics: