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Cloning Wizard

Creating equipment through cloning​

Use the Cloning Wizard to save time when entering similar gages or when overwriting equipment with information very similar to another piece of equipment.

To clone a piece of equipment:

  1. Locate the equipment with the features you want to copy.
  2. Click the Cloning Wizard button on the toolbar.
  3. The Clone Current Equipment screen indicates the clone from equipment's Company and I.D. in the upper left.
  4. In the New Equipment Attributes section, choose the new Company, I.D., and Serial Number for the equipment you are creating.
  5. In the Cloning Options section, select or deselect the parts of the equipment you want to clone — press the space bar on the highlighted feature, or single-click the checkbox beside a field.
  6. Click Finished to complete the wizard, Finish and Repeat to clear the form and start another entry, or Cancel to leave the dialog without cloning.

Cloning Wizard dialog

Cloning Wizard dialog

Dialog reference​

Clone From Equipment​

Enter the Company and I.D. of the equipment that you are cloning. The current equipment is the default.

New Equipment Attributes​

Enter the Company, I.D., and Serial Number of the new equipment that will be created by the cloning process. The current company is the default company. The current serial number is the default serial number.

Cloning Options​

Choose the cloning options. Most of the options are fields that can be selected for cloning. If only a few fields should be excluded, press Select All to check all options and then deselect the exceptions.

The non-field options are:

  • Overwrite Any Existing Default Test Points — overwrites existing test points when cloning over a previously entered gage. If this option is not chosen, a dialog will ask whether you want the test points to be merged. In that case, IndySoft only merges in a test point's information when the new gage's test point Standard equals the old gage's test point Standard, and only the test point information checked in Cloning Options is merged.
  • Locate Equipment After Cloning — IndySoft will find the new gage after the cloning process completes.
  • Default Empty Schedules — if the new gage's Company and I.D. match equipment that already exists in IndySoft, the user will be prompted whether to clone the old information over the existing equipment.

When you are done cloning, press Finished to exit, or Finish and Repeat to clone another piece of equipment.