This step of creating a rule set helps you define how your features are handled as they're imported. You can define the feature labels, what to do if imported feature names conflict with existing feature names, and whether or not points are offset by a defined amount in XYZ.
Feature Label - If you want to define the base name for the features to import, mark Use base name and then type the name of the feature. For example, if you're importing point features, you might want to type "PNT" or "Point".
Use base name - Mark this to define the base name for the imported features. If this is cleared, PC-DMIS uses the feature type as the base name.
Base name - Type the base name the process uses for the imported features if Use base name is marked.
Creation Confliction - Use this area to determine how to handle conflicts with existing features of the same name.
Update existing nominals - This updates existing features with the imported data. During import, the process checks the current measurement routine's existing feature names and attempts to update matching features with the information contained in the ASCII file. If you have more than one feature in the measurement routine with the same ID, only the top-most feature in the measurement routine is updated. When the import process updates the nominal values of an existing feature, a dialog box appears showing all the features that had nominal values updated.
Create new feature with a -1 extension - This add an underscore and a number to the feature ID to make it unique. So, if PNT1 was a duplicate, this would be changed to PNT1_1. If there was another PNT1, it would be renamed to PNT1_2 and so on.
Point Offset - This area lets you offset imported points by a specified location.
Offset the points - If marked, points are offset by the distance in the offset boxes below. If cleared, no offset takes place.
X offset - This defines the offset distance in the X direction.
Y offset - This defines the offset distance in the Y direction.
Z offset - This defines the offset distance in the Z direction.
Back - Returns to Step 3.
Cancel - Returns to the Importing dialog box.
Finish - This button functions according to how the Rule Set Wizard was started.
If you started by clicking Create, the Rule Set Wizard is closed and a Create new rule set dialog box appears. Type the name of the new rule set in the Rule set name box and click OK. A message box informs you that the rule file is saved.
If you started by clicking Edit, the Rule Set Wizard is closed and any changes are applied to the edited rule set file.
If you started by clicking Import to Measurement Routine (By wizard), The rule set is applied, and the parsed ASCII file is imported into PC-DMIS as an Inspection Plan. If any changes have been made to the rule set, then you will also be prompted to save your changes.