Settings, the library and Smart Fill
Last updated 6 August 2026
Two gears. The one in the top bar is the shop: things that are true of every plan you write. The one in the Power Editor toolbar is this plan: how its numbers are displayed.
Shop information
- Organization name and supplier or CAGE code. Most aerospace primes require the CAGE code, and it prints on every AS9102 Form 1.
- Default reviewer and default approver, which pre-fill the sign-off block on a first article report.
The library
Methods and frequencies are picked from a list rather than typed, and this is where the list lives. Add your own gauges as you meet them. Process templates are kept here too.
The reason for a closed list is an auditor rather than tidiness: free text produces three spellings of one gauge across a year of control plans, and nothing downstream can tell they are the same.
Units and precision
- The shop picks a default input unit, inches or millimeters, and how many decimals each is displayed to. Four decimals for inches and two for millimeters are the defaults.
- A plan can override the display: leave it native so mixed-unit plans stay mixed, or force everything to inches or millimeters.
- Precision can be overridden per plan too.
- The Power Editor always shows native units regardless, because that is where you type.
Smart Fill
Smart Fill is a set of shop-wide rules of the form when this, then that. They fill in the fields you would otherwise key the same way a few hundred times a year.
| When | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Always | No condition. The effect becomes the starting value of every new characteristic. |
| Tolerance band | The width of the tolerance window, compared with less than, greater than or equal to. |
| Class | Equal to Critical, Major, Minor or Reference. |
| Method | Equal to a method from the library. |
The effect sets class, frequency or notes. A rule that says a tolerance band under one thousandth makes a characteristic Critical and inspected one hundred percent is the shape most shops start with.
- Rules are shop-wide, so changing one reaches every plan you open afterward.
- Threads, GD&T and basic dimensions are skipped: a tolerance band does not mean the same thing on them.
- A rule never overwrites a field you just changed by hand in the same edit.
- Rules are named from what they do rather than by you, so the list reads as a set of statements.
- A filled cell flashes and names the rule that filled it, so nothing changes silently.
Draft and locked
A plan is a draft or it is locked. Locking makes it read-only and writes the file; unlocking is one click. There is no approval workflow, no effective date and no audit log here, because those live in your document control system and a second half-implementation of them would be worse than none.