## Setting Import Options

You can easily set import options to determine default colors for certain imported entity types, as well as how PC-DMIS displays imported curves.

To perform these manipulations, select the Edit | Preferences | Import Options menu item. This will display the Import Options dialog box.

Import Options dialog box

This dialog box contains the Default Colors area as well as some check boxes.

Default Colors

This area lets you change the default colors for imported Points, Curves, Surfaces, and Datum entity types. If the entity types don't already have a defined color, they will use this default color. To change a color, simply click on a button in this area. A standard Color dialog box appears, allowing you to select a new color.

Color dialog box

When you import the next feature, PC-DMIS will use the newly defined colors.

Check Boxes

Explode polylines to points - Usually, when you import curves entities, they appear as individual curves. In reality, however, each curve is really a polyline, a bunch of lines connected by a series of points. Selecting this check box makes imported polyline curve entities appear as a series of points, one point for each polyline vertex. Clearing this check box makes imported curves appear as normal.

Keep Polylines - Selecting this check box will allow the image to continue to display the original polyline along with the points when you select the Explode polyline to points check box. Clearing this check box will only show the series of points.

PC-DMIS will use these settings for all future import operations.