Editing a Measurement Routine: Introduction

The main purposes of PC-DMIS are to allow you to create, edit, and execute measurement routines with ease. This chapter discusses using the Edit menu (with other menu options) to edit your measurement routines. While the Edit menu works with the commands that appear in the Edit window, a discussion of the Edit window itself is beyond the scope of this chapter. For an in-depth look at the Edit window, see the "Using the Edit Window" chapter.

This chapter covers these topics:

• Using Standard Edit Commands

• Editing Patterns of Features

• Finding and Replacing Text

• Editing Data Fields

• Jumping to Specified Line Numbers

• Jumping to and from Referenced Commands

• Overriding Guessed Features

• Overriding Found Nominals

• Marking Commands for Execution

• Creating and Executing Marked Sets

• Using Bookmarks

• Using Breakpoints

• Changing Fonts and Colors

• Editing External Objects

• Protecting Measurement Routines from Edits

• Updating Nominals from CAD

• Resetting Measured Values to Nominals