#### Output to a DMIS File

If the DMIS Output check box is marked, PC-DMIS saves the inspection report's information as a DMIS Output file. Four check boxes (Overwrite Output File, Output Theoretical Values, Output Features with Dimensions, and Disable UTF-8 Output) and a Save As button become available. By default PC-DMIS will automatically generate the output file whenever you execute the part program, incrementing the number on the filename each time it is executed.

Save As

- Clicking the Save As button opens a Save As dialog box. This allows you to save the inspection report to a file and directory of your choice in the DMIS output format (.dmo filename extension). PC-DMIS does not save the file once you click Save from the Save As dialog box. Instead, it will create the output file with the specified name the next time you execute the part program.

Overwrite Output File

- If you select Overwrite Output File, PC-DMIS will simply overwrite the old output file with the new one. If you don't select this check box, PC-DMIS automatically increments the file name specified in the Save As dialog box without overwriting any previous file.
  For example, if you had previously selected "test.dmo" as your output file and Overwrite Output File was not selected, the next time the part program was executed, PC-DMIS would save a new file as "test1.dmo". New executions of the part program would be saved as files incremented in this manner.

- If you place Overwrite Output File in its third state (light gray check mark), PC-DMIS will open the specified file in append mode. This follows the DMIS convention that allows you to enable, disable, and enable again the output to the same file. In PC-DMIS, this will function correctly only if the file was initially opened with Overwrite Output File selected.

Output Theoretical Values

- If you select Output Theoretical Values, PC-DMIS outputs all theoretical values along with the measured values to the output DMIS file. If you don't select this check box, no theoretical values are included in the report.

- If you place the Output Theoretical Values check box in its third state (light gray check mark), only those theoretical values explicitly output by the original DMIS program are output in the report. This third state is useful when the part program is created by a DMIS import process, and you need to maintain the same DMIS output format.

Output Features with Dimensions

- If you select Output Features with Dimensions, PC-DMIS will keep the measured features and associated tolerances together in the output file. PC-DMIS will write the measurement results immediately before their associated tolerance results for each dimension associated to the feature itself.
  If a feature is not associated with any tolerance, PC-DMIS will not generate any output.

- If you don't select Output Features with Dimensions, the measurement results are written exactly when the feature is measured and not later when PC-DMIS executes the associated dimensions.

Disable UTF-8 Output

- This check box lets you disable UTF-8 character encoding since a UTF-8 enabled output may end up with improper characters for US and Western/European languages. UTF-8 is the dominant character encoding used to support multi-byte characters contained in some languages, such as Chinese and Japanese. Originally DMIS was built around ANSI characters. UTF-8 support was added later so that operator prompts and so on would appear in multi-byte languages.

Note: The numeric portion of the file name should not exceed more than 10 digits. Otherwise, you run the risk of overwriting older output files.