### Creating Auto Features

Using the Auto Features toolbar or the Insert | Auto Feature submenu you can create and add features to your Inspection Plan.

Auto Features toolbar

If a plan does not exist, you can create a feature and PC-DMIS Planner will automatically create a new plan for you. Begin creating features by doing the following:

1. From the Auto Features toolbar or the Insert | Auto Features menu, select the feature type you want to create (listed below). A dialog box, specific to the selected feature, appears.

Example Circle dialog box

PC-DMIS Planner supports the following features:

| Surface Point |  | Circle |  | Polygon
| Edge Point |  | Ellipse |  | Cylinder
| Angle Point |  | Square Slot |  | Cone
| Corner Point |  | Round Slot |  | Sphere
| Line |  | Notch Slot |  | Edge Scan
| Plane |  | Flush & Gap |  | 3D Scan
|  |  |  |  | Freeform Scan

2. Using the mouse, select the face, edge, or vertex from the CAD display that will be used for the feature. The feature is created with the nominal data extracted from the CAD data. You can create multiple features for the given type by selecting from the CAD until you have created the needed features.

3. Edit the values from the "Feature" dialog box as needed. See "The Feature Geometry Dialog Box" topic for more information on each of the available settings. Also, see the "Creating an Edge Scan Feature" and "Creating a 3D Scan Feature" topics for information on creating scan features.

4. Click Close when you are done. Click Remove Last to remove that last feature that was created via selection if the result is not acceptable. If you want to create a feature by entering in the feature data instead of selecting the feature from the CAD display, type the necessary information into the dialog box fields, and click the Create button.

You can also use the Auto Feature submenu to create Perimeter Points features. For information on this feature type, see the "Creating Perimeter Points" topic.

More:

The Feature Geometry Dialog Box

Creating an Edge Scan Feature

Creating a 3D Scan Feature

Creating a Freeform Scan Feature

Creating Perimeter Points