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Add cylindrical line profile tolerance evaluation (for pipes/tubes)
I would love to have the possibility to evaluate cylindrical line profile tolerances, especially used on tubes/pipes.
Example:
Often (but not always) used with a coordinate table:
...and a bending radii:
With this information, we can create a pipe centerline (if we don't have CAD) to use as nominal.
I have already checked the other Hexagon software offerings, such as BendingStudio and TubeShaper and they cannot evaluate this. The application manager for BS even told me that BS cannot and will not be able to evaluate this. BS is for manufacturing - not metrology.
AFAIK, no software on the market can evaluate this, except for PC-DMIS and Metrolog - with the help of an external program made by Hexagon Metrology Nordic called JoTube2. However, this program is no longer under active maintenance and hasn't been updated since 2013, probably due to low sales (and the author retired). This means that we need to find a solution to this problem as the software is slowly decaying due to OS upgrades and soon we won't have the luxury of being able to use it.
The two largest truck companies in Sweden are using this line profile tolerance for their pipes, I am unsure of other manufacturers. This means that the suppliers to them are suffering from the same problem - no proper evaluation method...
Line profile is mainly 2D, but ISO 1101 points to ISO 1660 that states that line profile tolerance zone can be made cylindrical by preceding the tolerance value with Ø.
Please consider to include this to PC-DMIS, either as an option or a standard feature!

Summary and command mode taskbar button
Addition of a taskbar button to switch between summary and command mode easily

Adding comment to assign command
You should be able to add a comment to the end of an assign line of code.
For example, currently the code is
ASSIGN/V1=10
it would be good if you could add a comment at the end to help with editing the program by adding $$ at the end, example
ASSIGN/V1=10 $$ diameter of hole 1
ASSIGN/V2=20 $$ diameter of hole 2

Visual indicator for scan control points
When trying to add control points it is very difficult to understand what the control point is actually doing or when it will trigger. If there could be some sort of visual aid that shows the control point along the scan path that would be very helpful.

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Excel Form Report, PCD ID |x||y||z| output
In excel form report, can we implement where the xyz values will run in a row for a dimension, and than in the next row below it another dimension and it's xyz values, and so on and so forth.
Example:
Row1: |X|,|Y|,|Z|,|PCD ID|
Row2: |X|,|Y|,|Z|,|PCD ID|
Row3: |X|,|Y|,|Z|,|PCD ID|
etc.

Locking a feature label to
I would like to be able to select feature labels to stay in the view in the camera while dimensioning. For example if the part is really big but all the dimensions come from Datum A it would be nice to have the datum A feature label always in the camera view to easily select it. Right now can drag the label around but this would be much easier. The same way we can lock and unlock targets on the vision systems

Auto Close Program
The ability to add a line of code that would automatically file>close or file quit a program.
Similar to routine end.

Construct a line from a circle
We want the ability to construct a line from a circle by drawing a line perpendicular to the plane through the centrum line

Zeiss Calypso RDS-CAA function for Hexagon CMMs (HH-AS8-T2.5)
Need the ability to calibrate a set of probe tip angles and the software calculate to the calibration for the rest of the tip angle possibilities, the RDS probe head using the CAA (computer aided accuracy) calibration function save hours of calibration time by not having to calibrate each tip angle across multiple jobs and accurate enough for most dimensions.
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