Many customers are not aware of the significant lobing error on a touch trigger probe. Currently we do not 'map' this lobing error other than average it. In some cases (long stylus length and higher spring forces)  the lobing can be significant and will result in errors whilst measuring, especially when single point measuring. PC-DMIS should be able of map the characteristics and thus provide more accurate measurements. This will give us an advanced over competitor software.

Command mode has visual challenges. Small text (fonts), while difficult to see, is good for seeing the whole program - especially features with long widths across. Large text (fonts) is good for detail and visibility, but the field of view gets cropped.

Changing fonts by pressing F6, then clicking "Edit Window", and THEN selecting the font size, is archaic.

A huge improvement would be if Command Mode allowed Dynamic Zoom (or Font Scaling) using <CTRL> + Mouse Scroll. Examples of this are available in Visual Studio's editor, MS Word, and Notepad++.

Note the attached MP4 of Visual Studio scrolling in and out of code details.

Visual Studio, Dynamic Zoom

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In other Measuring Software you can show the trimline of sheet metal work pieces, like Pcdmis do it in cross section and line profile. But it is not possible to use for trimlines, because of the high deviation or the contour of the trimline. It would be nice, if it worked like the cross section.

Command Mode

New Mode - Field Editor Mode (or Filter mode?)

Basically it's command mode - except you can filter what it shows:

Example - Avoidance moves only (probe)

Example - light settings only (vision)

Example - Measure Now/Remeasure

Example - Relative Too

It would also be nice, that if you are in this mode PCDMIS would see that you are not changing anything relevant to an alignment - and thus the prompts would act accordingly.

An Auto Square slot that also checks corner radius. Reports center location, length, width, and corner radius. 

When selecting holes with a composite pattern true position requirement the tolerancing window automatically filters the selectable holes to only list holes of identical sizes.  Previous versions of PC-DMIS would let us select holes of any diameter from the tolerancing window to include in a pattern requirement.

EXCELFORMREPORT does not allow the individual points of form tolerances to be output, only the min/max and measured values. For customers with point maps it would be nice to be able to see all of the form deviations.

Currently EXCELFORMREPORT does not allow you to set the whole path, only the directory where the files go. It would be convenient to set the full path, similar to how the print command works. 

We read in the full path of the report name from a file because we often have reports that need to relate to each other so the initial part of the name needs to be the same

We are a job shop that does everything under the sun, tubes being no exception.  We really need tubeshaper to be able to measure non round geometries.  Round tubes are only half of our tube product mix.     Please help!!!