### Working with Planner .Cad Files

PC-DMIS Planner uses .cad files to store the imported .cad and any embedded Inspection Plans. This allows you to store multiple Inspection Plans in the PC-DMIS Planner .cad file. When you import a Planner .cad file into PC-DMIS and it has one or more embedded plans, PC-DMIS allows you to select Inspection Plans using the File | Import | Inspection Plan menu item.

Inspection Plans are included with a Planner .cad file when the plan has been "released". To release a plan, right-click on an "in process" plan and select Release Plan from the pop-up menu. "Released" plans will be available for import from the saved Planner .cad file in PC-DMIS.

Any changes made to a plan will change its status to "in process", requiring that it be "released" again.

Alternately, you may choose to import an Inspection Plan into PC-DMIS that you have exported from PC-DMIS Planner via an .ip file.

The following commands are used to create, open, save and close PC-DMIS Planner .cad files:

- Click New from the Main toolbar or select the File | New menu item. This creates a new PC-DMIS Planner .cad file named "Untitled". The file is not saved at this point, but would require you to save the file.

- Click Open from the Main toolbar or select the File | Open menu item. This opens the Open dialog box. Browse to and select the needed .cad file. Click Open to open the file.

- Click Save from the Main toolbar or select the File | Save menu item to save the file. When you select the File | Save As menu item, the Save As dialog box opens. This dialog box provides you with the ability to save the .cad file as a different name or in a format that works with supported PC-DMIS versions. Supported versions are listed in the Save as type list. These include: PCDMIS CAD File (works with the most recent version of PC-DMIS), PCDMIS 2009 CAD File (works with base release of PC-DMIS 2009), and PCDMIS 4.3 CAD File (works with any PC-DMIS 4.3 version). Click Save to complete the Save As operation.

- Select the File | Close menu item to close the current file without closing PC-DMIS Planner.