To create a new Inspection Plan, follow this procedure:

1. Open the Plan dialog box by doing one of the following:

- Click New Plan from the Plans toolbar.

- Right-click any existing plan in the Plan list and select the Insert New Plan option from the shortcut menu.

Plan dialog box

2. Type a name for the Inspection Plan in the Plan name box.

3. Click OK to create the Inspection Plan. This adds the specified plan to the list of available plans.

Plan List

By default, when you create a new PC-DMIS CAD file, an Inspection Plan named Plan 1 is created. You can rename any of the Inspection Plan files by selecting it from the list and then right-clicking the plan name and selecting the Rename option from the shortcut menu. Type the needed name and press Enter.

New Inspection Plans are embedded in the PC-DMIS Planner CAD file.

Select File | Import | Inspection Plan to import an existing .ip file into your current .cad file.

To add a command to the inspection plan, select where you want the new command to appear in the desired inspection plan, and then insert it into the command by using the Insert menu, by clicking on the GD&T symbols in the Graphics Display window, or by using available toolbars.

See the following topics to add those specific commands:

- Creating Measured Features

- Constructing Features

- Adding Dimensions to Features

- Creating Alignments

- Inserting Comments

To edit an existing inspection plan, right-click on the inspection plan command and select Edit. See "Shortcut Menus in the Plan List".

To edit a specific command, you can either double-click on it in the Plan list or select it and press F9.

Select any plan or command from the Inspection Plan and remove it by doing one of the following:

- Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

- Click Delete from the Main toolbar.

- Select the Edit | Delete menu item.

- Right-click on the item and select the Delete option from the shortcut menu.

For each of these options you will be prompted to verify that you really want to delete the item. Click OK to delete the item or Cancel to keep it. Deleted items cannot be restored and would have to be recreated if needed.

## Working with Inspection Plans

The pane on the left side of the screen is called the Plan window. It houses your inspection plans and all commands contained within each inspection plan. Initially the Plan window will be blank when creating a new .cad file until you choose to create a new inspection plan or import an existing plan.

- Each inspection plan you create can be expanded or collapsed by clicking the + or - keys respectively.

- You can select multiple commands inside of inspection plans in contiguous order by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking on two different command IDs. All IDs between them will be selected. You can also select multiple non-contiguous commands by holding down the CTRL key and clicking each command you want selected. Planner highlights associated features in the Graphics Display window.

- Selecting a plan command in the list highlights features in the Graphics Display window that are associated with that command.

- Feature IDs copied from one plan and pasted into another share the same underlying feature information. Therefore, any change made to the feature ID in one plan is automatically made to all other copied feature IDs, regardless of the plan in which they're located.

- Until inspection plans are "released" for use, they will not be available for import into PC-DMIS, even though they remain embedded inside the .cad file. In this case, the Plan window displays "in process" next to the plan title. To make them ready for use with PC-DMIS, right-click on the inspection plan's name in the Plan window and select Release Plan from the shortcut menu. Next to the Plan name it displays "released".

- You can only open a single .cad file at a time in Planner. As long as one is open, the New and Open menu and toolbar items are inactive. To switch to a new .cad file, first use the File | Close menu item to close the current file. The New and Open items will then be enabled for selection.

Creating a New Inspection Plan

Importing an Existing Inspection Plan

Adding Commands to an Inspection Plan

Editing an Inspection Plan

Deleting Inspection Plan Elements