### Updating Inspection Plans with Change Management

Note: While the documentation below was written specifically for Inspection Plans, it also applies to updating part program files created from Datalog files as well.

The Change Management capabilities of PC-DMIS allows you to ensure that your part program, created from a previously imported version of your Inspection Plan, is updated with the latest version of your Inspection Plan.

Double-clicking a feature name from any list will expand the display of parameters for that feature. This allows you to compare values before updating your part program.

To update your part program from an Inspection Plan:

1. Select the File | Change Manager | From Inspection Plan menu item.

2. The Select IP name dialog box appears. Select the Inspection Plan from the list and click on the OK button to make changes based on the selected plan. Click the Cancel button or click the OK button without selecting anything from the list to access the Open dialog box to select a specific released Inspection Plan that is not currently loaded.

3. If selecting an Inspection Plan from the Open dialog box, browse to and select the current Inspection Plan (*.ip file) from which your part program was originally created.

4. Click the Import button to display the Change Manager Plan dialog box.

Change Manager Plan dialog box

5. Use the following controls to process the differences in the part program and the imported plan.

   - Options: Opens the Change Managements Options dialog box. See "Change Management Options".

   - Update: The selected feature is updated into the Existing Plan from the New Plan when you click this option. Selecting a feature from one list will highlight the corresponding feature from the other list. You can select more than one feature at a time to update.

   - Ignore: The selected feature is ignored for update into the Existing Plan from the New Plan when you click this option. Selecting a feature from one list will highlight the corresponding feature from the other list. You can select more than one feature at a time to ignore.

   - Undo: Available only after Update or Ignore has been processed. Clicking this button will undo the last change made.

   - Add: The selected feature from the Addition Candidates list is added to the bottom of the existing plan when you click this option. You can select more than one feature at a time to add.

   - Delete: The selected feature from the Deletion Candidates list is deleted from the existing plan when you click this option. You can select more than one feature at a time to delete.

   - Map: Available only when one feature is selected from both the Addition and Deletion Candidate lists. Clicking Map will replace the selected Deletion Candidate feature with the selected Addition Candidate feature. This does not allow multiple selections. You can map both like and unlike feature types (e.g circle to a point, or point to a point).

   - Ignore: The selected feature from the Deletion Candidates list is ignored (removed from the list), and will not be deleted from the existing plan when you click this option. You can select more than one feature at a time to ignore. Any part program feature removed from the list will remain as is in the part program.

   - Undo: Available only after Add, Delete or Map has been processed. Clicking this button will undo the last change made.

4. - OK: Accepts all the current changes, writing the changes into the current part program. The dialog box is also closed.

   - Cancel: Exits the dialog box, disregarding all the changes made.

To update your part program from a CAD model:

1. Select the File | Change Manager | From CAD model menu item as shown above.

2. The Change Manager CAD dialog box appears.

The Change Manager CAD dialog box functions the same as described above except for the following items:

- The Add button and the Additional Candidates section is not available.

- The Edit button for the Deletion Candidates section will display the edit dialog for the selected feature in the Deletion Candidates list so that the feature can be edited instead of just deleting it or ignoring it.

- Select the IPD file that will be applied to the imported Inspection Plan if you have not previously selected it. See the "PC-DMIS Planner Parameters and Rules" topic for more information.

- If the insertion point is not at the end of the part program, you will be prompted to move the cursor to the end of the part program before continuing.

- Specify the Optimize Path options and click OK, or click Skip to ignore this step. See the "Performing the Path Optimization" topic for more information. Review the "Path Optimization Summary" and click OK.

- Specify the options for "Automatically Inserting Move Commands" and click OK to complete this process or click Cancel to skip this step.

- The Recalculate button is clicked on after the tolerances have been changed. PC-DMIS reviews the settings to determine which features are close enough to the CAD model to be considered the same.

Note: The Change Management Options functions described for the Options button are integrated into the Change Manager CAD form.