Adding Custom Fixtures

To add your own custom fixtures into the Available Fixtures list:

  1. Access the Quick Fixture dialog box (Insert | Hardware Definition | Quick Fixture).

  2. In the New fixture area, click the Browse button. An Open dialog box appears.

  3. Navigate to your fixture's model. It can be of any supported graphical formats. PC-DMIS defaults to showing an IGES file format in the Files of type list. You can change this to any of the selected formats.

  4. Select your model and click Open. The Open dialog box closes and PC-DMIS displays the full path to the file you selected inside the New fixture area.

  5. Click the Add button. PC-DMIS adds the fixture into the Available fixtures list. This fixture will appear in this list even for other measurement routines.