one of the most frequent complaints is about changing nominals. There have been many different things listed to reduce that having to do with F5 settings and how Alignments are created etc, amounting to many things to seek and tie them down so they dont change. Perhaps pcdmis authors consider this a 'feature' but most users consider it the bain of their existence. It makes them HATE using pcdmis. Why not have 1 simple parameter the user can set that permanently locks the nominals of features and moves etc so that they can not change?

Enhance the Keyed in dimension by adding an input box for use of a variable entry and the option not to pop up during execution.

This would allow us to assign a variable as the measured value with out asking what the measured value is and eliminate the need to construct a generic feature.

A way to calculate for allowing plating into your measurements I think would be a good idea. A way to enter plating variables and with the nominals from the imported CAD and selected Datums from the program an adjustment could be made to the tolerances, instead of manually adjusting your reported tolerances. A feature for PC-DMIS that takes each measured features vector and can move opposing vectors tolerance tighter and vectors in the same direction leave the same tolerance.

Suggestion from the Live Idea Center Session at HxGN Live

Add the ability to drag and drop any CAD file into the Graphics Display with "automagic" import.

When copying/pasting parts of the program I have to keep scrolling up/down, would be useful to split the editor in 2 and show 2 different parts of the program as the same time (similar functionally is in MS Word by dragging the handle at the top of the scroll bar).

Make PC DMIS able to construct a cone from two or more circles.

Currently you can force it to do this by extracting points from your circles and constructing the Cone, but this is very time intensive and also does not allow for true point vectoring.

Need the simple exchange button for the dimension report units between mm and inches. We have over 200 dimension and it should be simple for developer to add this function on standard PC-DMIS.

Reporting of Multiple Parts

Add a tab for the report window at the bottom of the graphic display window similar to the vision or laser tabs. This way you dont have to use the clunky menu options or hotkeys to switch back and forth to it.

Why don't we have toolbar icons for scans?