## Adding Features from GD&T Callouts

CAD imported with GD&T Callouts

If your CAD data was imported with GD&T callouts, you can quickly add features to your Inspection Plan from these callouts by doing the following:

1. Click on the callout in the Graphics Display window.

   - If the callout is a Feature Control Frame, this opens a FCF (Plan) dialog box for that FCF callout. Planner automatically creates the Feature Control Frame inside the Feature Control Frame editor.

Sample Showing a GD&T FCF Callout created as a FCF

2. - If the callout is a datum, this opens the Create Datum Command dialog box with the datum inside.

Sample Showing a GD&T Datum Callout created as a Datum

When you click on a datum callout in the CAD window, Planner checks to see if there are any datum targets associated with the datum. If there are, it uses the datum targets to create the datum feature.

- If there is just one target, it uses the feature from that target for the datum.

- If there are two targets, it creates a constructed offset line.

- If there are three targets, it creates a constructed offset plane. If a constructed plane is created, and the datum callout is attached to a plane, Planner calculates the offsets so that the offset plane is coplanar with the datum plane.

When you click on the callout to add a datum, Planner highlights the associated surface or feature in the Graphics Display window. If the feature doesn't exist, Planner adds the feature into the Create Datum Command dialog box. This feature will get created and added to the plan when you click Create at the end of this procedure.

2. Review the features, Feature Control Frame, and any datums commands that will be added. While Planner attempts to create the appropriate feature or features, it may not always succeed. When this happens, you will need to manually create any missing features.

3. Make any adjustments as needed in either the FCF dialog box or the Create Datum Command dialog box.

4. Click OK or Create. All associated commands to generate that Feature Control Frame or datum are added to the Inspection Plan

5. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for all the needed callouts.

Note: You cannot select GD&T callouts while in "Text Box Mode" since this mode allows you to reposition GD&T labels in the Graphics Display window.

Below is an example of the Graphics Display window and the commands added to the Inspection Plan.

Plan Created from a GD&T Callout

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Working with Inspection Plans