Configure the mode of importing PMI balloons for a quality engineer

When a quality engineer imports the product and manufacturing information (PMI) balloons from a part into the Inspection Definitions of a Control Plan, Quality Characteristics are generated from the source balloons and are added to the generated Inspection Definitions.

By default, Control and Inspection Planning imports the PMI balloons in the synchronous mode when a quality engineer selects less than 20 balloons in the PMI tab. If a quality engineer selects more PMI balloons, Control and Inspection Planning imports the balloons in the asynchronous mode. In any case, selecting a large number might impact performance if the balloons are imported in the synchronous mode.

In the ACP_Config_SyncAsync_Import_Balloon_Call preference, you can specify the number of balloons that can be imported in the synchronous mode. If the quality engineer selects more than the number of balloons specified in this preference, Control and Inspection Planning imports the balloons in the asynchronous mode.