Hey guys,

I was thinking this morning how nice it would be to be able to specify with your jog box or even form the machine directly set move distances while programming directly online.

Example: I program a lot of thinks that are almost 2 dimensional so it is hard to fixture so we simply just change parts run a quick manual alignment however sometimes it can be tedious to go take and find those manual points but still get it close.

So if you are programming without CAD and not offline and you want the machine to move what you know to be 10mm you can have an options to move in Z+ Z- X+ X- ect. that exact amount instead of feathering the stick to where you want it given the option to change desired distant in seconds. Usually we know where we want to go in each direction we just don't know how far but we know roughly and we know which direction we want. This can make manually take points slightly more uniform as well short of going back through your code and just adjusting your coordinates.

I am not sure if this is possible with current jog boxes or windows in pc-dmis but our machine has an older style j box with no screen or anything. So a window for quick input directions in pc-dmis and or on the jog box would be awesome.

Help files need to make it clear that the working plane and alignment has to match the vector you want the high point to calculate to.   

Either that or change the high point measurement routine to calculate to the entered/ CAD IJK values regardless of working plane or alignment.  This actually seems more intuitive to me.

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I would like to include a details view, list view and contents view option for measurement routine files within the Measure Tab Main View area. Same concept as Windows Explorer.

Show path lines for highlighted code only option.

I FIND THE NEW REPORTING TEMPLATES AND LABELS DIFFICULT TO EDIT AND MANIPULATE, CAN THIS BE MADE MORE GENERIC LIKE LEGACY REPORTS

I would like inspect to have its own report window open when the program is finished or a simplified display showing the measurement results. Having to save to a pdf or excel file in PC DMIS and opening it in inspect has been very buggy so I don't use Inspect. A window popup like pc-dmis would be nice. The overlay that shows so many dimensions in and so many out but doesnt say which ones and by how much doesn't do a whole lot of good for anyone.

Similar to STI, have the ability to organize programs into subgroup catagories or folders. This would greatly help cmm operators find a program quickly when there are hundreds of programs to select from.