## Using the Quick Start Interface

The Quick Start interface (View | Other Windows | Quick Start) is a dialog box with a connected toolbar down the side.

Quick Start interface

This interface helps you to quickly create a simple part program. It does this by providing dialog boxes or procedures that help you define or calibrate a probe, align your part, measure features, construct additional features, and dimension existing features.

To access any of these items, simply click on the desired toolbar icon. If the icon contains additional procedures, another toolbar will appear to the right of the selected icon. From the new toolbar you can select a specific procedure.

The Quick Start Toolbar Icons

The Quick Start toolbar contains these icons:

| Calibrate / Edit - This icon doesn't have a toolbar. It opens the Probe Utilities dialog box. You can then use this dialog box to define a probe and calibrate probe tips.
| Align - This icon displays the Quick Start Align toolbar. From this toolbar you can select an alignment procedure.
| Measure - This icon displays the Quick Start Measure toolbar. From this toolbar you can select a measurement procedure.
| Construct - This icon displays the Quick Start Construct toolbar. From this toolbar you can select a construction procedure.
| Dimension - This icon displays the Quick Start Dimension toolbar. From this toolbar you can select a desired dimension procedure.
| Reset - This icon doesn't have a toolbar. It resets the Quick Start dialog box to guess mode.

Understanding the Quick Start Interface:

In versions 3.5 through 3.7, the Quick Start toolbar was separate from the Quick Start dialog box. Since version 4.0, however, to save screen real estate, the Quick Start toolbar is now tied to the Quick Start dialog box itself. This means whenever you select the Quick Start interface, both the toolbar and the dialog box automatically appear and are inseparable.

Quick Start dialog box and toolbar

In addition,

- Hovering your mouse over a particular item on the dialog or toolbar tells what that item does in a yellow tool tip that will appear under your mouse.

- You can dock or undock the Quick Start dialog box to or from the left side of the screen by clicking on the title bar and then dragging and dropping it.

- Instructions for the various Quick Start procedures are no longer included in the Quick Start dialog box. Instead, they are displayed on the Status Bar at the bottom of your screen. If the instructions are too long for the Status Bar area, PC-DMIS scrolls the instructions from right to left. Moving your mouse over the Quick Start dialog box resets the scrolling of the current instructions to the beginning.

  Example Quick Start Instruction on the left side of the Status Bar

- You can now select input features used in the different procedures by clicking on the feature from the Edit window or from the Graphics Display window.

- PC-DMIS now includes a Status Window. This window lets you preview a dimension or, if in Guess Mode, preview a measured feature before clicking the Finish button and inserting the dimension or feature into the part program. See "Using the Status Window" in the "Using Other Windows, Editors, and Tools" section.

Important: When you enable the Quick Start interface certain commands are disabled. For example, you cannot delete, copy, or mark features; neither can you execute your part program. To perform these and other actions you need to first close the Quick Start interface.

More:

Using the Quick Start Dialog Box

Quick Start: Measure Toolbar

Quick Start: Construct Toolbar

Quick Start: Dimension Toolbar

Quick Start: Align Toolbar

Quick Start: Calibrate / Edit Toolbar