PC-DMIS provides you with an assortment of windows, editors, and other aids that can help make your measurement routine more productive.
These include:
The Edit window, which has already been discussed in the "Using the Edit Window" chapter
A Report window to display measurement results (see "Using the Report Window")
A script editor that creates scripts in the BASIC programming language (see "Using the Basic Script Editor")
An editor that creates and displays interactive forms and dialog boxes (see "Using the Form Editor")
An inspection report editor that enables you to quickly view and make small editing changes to your automatically-generated inspection reports (see "Viewing an Inspection Report")
An interface for quick generation of simple measurement routines (see "Using the Quick Start Interface")
A Settings window that you can use to make quick edits to frequently-used values (see "Using the Settings Window")
A Preview window that previews your measurements before you accept them (see "Using the Preview Window")
A window that creates and stores marked sets of features for future execution (see "Using the Marked Sets Window")
A Probe Readouts window that shows the current probe's location and other information (see "Using the Probe Readouts Window")
A Status window that displays the current status of an operation or feature information (see "Using the Status Window")
A Probe Toolbox that performs probe manipulations (see "Using the Probe Toolbox")
A dockable color bar that shows the different tolerance zones and dimension colors (see "Using the Dimension Colors Window")
A dockable Q-DAS Data Editor window that modifies K-field data for their Q-DAS statistical results (see "Using the Q-DAS Data Editor Window")
A dialog box that you can use to select an active tip (see "Selecting a Tip")
A path viewer that shows the path your probe takes during measurement routine execution (see "Viewing Path Lines")
A CAD Information dialog box that displays information about a CAD element in the Graphic Display window (see "Viewing CAD Information" in the "Editing the CAD Display" chapter)
A CAD Import History dialog box that displays a history of CAD models imported into the current measurement routine (see "Viewing CAD Import History")