#### Using the Quick Start dialog box

The Quick Start interface contains a toolbar attached to the Quick Start dialog box. Many of the procedures on this toolbar use the Quick Start dialog box to perform their operations. The toolbar icons are discussed in the "Quick Start Interface" topic.

This topic focuses on describing the items you will encounter on the dialog box portion of the interface and how to use the dialog box to perform various operations.

Sample Quick Start Interface

Dialog Box Item | Description
Graphical Description | For all operations that use the Quick Start dialog box, PC-DMIS displays two icons. A current procedure on the left and the current step in that procedure, or the current guessed feature, on the right. In the example screen shot to the left, the question mark icon shows that PC-DMIS is in a Guess Mode operation. The Point icon on its right shows that with a single hit, a point feature will get created. The icon on the right will change to a line if you take another hit.
ID | The unique ID for the feature. An ID appears in the box once you select an appropriate procedure. See "ID" in the "Navigating the User Interface" section. See "Editing Values and IDs" in the "Using the Edit Window" section.
Feature Override | This list lets you override the guessed feature measurement to the selected feature type. For example, if you take four hits and PC-DMIS guesses a plane, you can select Circle from this list to cause it to create a measured circle instead. See "Overriding a Guessed Measured Feature" in the "Creating Measured Features" section.
Number of Hits Taken | This display shows on the right of the slash, the minimum hits needed to measure the feature and on the left of the slash the hits currently taken. You can take more than the minimum number of hits in which case, the number to the left of the slash will be greater than the number on the right.
Store a Move | The Store a Move icon allows you to easily store move points into the part program. When you click this icon, PC-DMIS reads the current location of the probe and inserts a MOVE/POINT command into the Edit window. See the "Inserting a Move Point Command" topic in the "Inserting Move Commands" section.
Remove a Hit | The Remove a Hit icon removes the last hit from the hit buffer.
Guess | If you see this icon displayed in the dialog box you will know that PC-DMIS is in Guess Mode. PC-DMIS returns to this mode whenever you finish creating a Constructed feature or Alignment using the Quick Start dialog box. Clicking the Guess Mode icon from the Quick Start: Measure toolbar will also place PC-DMIS into Guess Mode.

Depending on the number of points taken, this mode guesses the feature type you’re attempting to measure and will dynamically update the Quick Start dialog box to reflect this.

For example, if, while in Guess Mode, you select two points, the Quick Start dialog box updates to a line feature. If four points are taken, it updates to a circle feature, if eight, to a cylinder, and so on.

See the "Guessing a Measured Feature Type" in the "Creating Measured Features" section.

Reference Feature | Some measured features (circles, ellipses, lines, polygons, and slots) can be projected relative to a reference plane. The Reference Feature area appears in the Quick Start dialog box for these feature types and allows you to determine whether or not the measured feature is 3D, projected relative to the current workplane, or another user-defined plane.

You can select one of these types of reference features:

- 3D - The measured feature is created in 3D space directly from the hits probed on the part. It is not constrained to fit relative to a plane.

Note: For measured lines the 3D item is not available because there's no way for PC-DMIS to know which way to compensate them.

- Workplane - The measured feature is created as a 2D feature that is snapped onto a plane parallel to the referenced workplane and located at the average distance between the points.

- Feature - The measured feature is created as a 2D feature that is snapped onto a referenced user-defined plane.
  If you want the feature created at the average distance between the points on a plane parallel to the referenced user-defined plane, you must clear the Move Feature to Reference Plane check box in the list of check boxes on the General tab of the Setup Options dialog box.
  If you need a reference plane feature that doesn't exist in the Name list, simply click the plane icon. The Quick Start dialog box will walk you through the process of measuring the plane feature and then will return to the current line, circle, or slot measurement.

Note: You can use the Move Feature to Reference Plane check box, located within the General tab of the SetUp Options dialog box, to instead have 2D features snapped directly onto the reference plane instead of onto a parallel plane.

Constructed Features Interface | When working through the steps to create constructed features, the Quick Start interface will display something like this. For information on these options, consult the "Constructing New Features from Existing Features" section.
Results | The Results box shows the results of all steps in a measurement procedure taken thus far. For example, if a user wants to do a Plane - Line - Line alignment, the results box will show the following when he has selected or measured the second line:

Step 1:PLN1=Measured Plane
Step 2:LIN1=Measured Line
Step 3:LIN2=Measured Line

The Results box is tied to the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box. The buttons become enabled whenever you fulfill the requirements for a certain step in a procedure.

<Back and Next> | The <Back and Next> buttons cycle between lists of required features or inputs. These buttons become available when procedures used on the toolbars require the selection or creation of multiple features (such as the Dimension and Align toolbars) or user input (such as upper and lower tolerance values for dimensions).

Clicking the Done button on your jog box acts the same as clicking the Next> button when using the Quick Start dialog box.

Finish | The Finish button completes the procedure, inserts the appropriate command into the Edit window, and then, in most cases, PC-DMIS return to the initial step of the current procedure. For alignments or constructed features, however, after you click Finish PC-DMIS returns you to the default Guess Mode.