## Understanding the User Interface

When you first launch PC-DMIS Planner you will need to either create a new .cad file (use File | New) or open an existing .cad file (use File | Open). Once you import a part model and create an inspection plan, the user interface will look something like this:

1. Title Bar and Menu Bar - This contains the title bar, listing your Planner version along with the name of the currently loaded .cad file. Below the title bar is the menu bar. The menu bar contains the standard menus available to PC-DMIS Planner. The menu bar helps you define desired settings, save and load .cad files, import information into your .cad file, print the contents of the Graphics Display window, insert various commands into your inspection plan, and all other operations needed to create inspection plans.

2. Toolbar Area - This area contains any toolbars you choose to display. They provide a quick way of accessing most of the functionality available in the menu bar. By default, the Dimensions (Plan) toolbar is displayed to the left of the Plan window and the Dimensions (CAD GDT) toolbar is displayed to the right of the Graphics Display window. See "Viewing Toolbars and the Status Bar".

3. Plan Window- The Plan window on the left displays all the inspection plans contained within the current .cad file as well as the commands contained within each plan. See "Working with Inspection Plans".

4. The Graphics Display window - This window displays graphical information about your part model and inspection plans. Planner will use this window to display any graphical information as well as defined features, feature IDs, and CAD GD&T callouts. You can use this window to interact with your part to define CAD features to measure. See "Working with the Graphics Display Window".

5. The Status Bar - The status bar displays instructions and other useful information. See "Status Bar".