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excel form add in positional graphics.

Melissa K 3 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

Add the ability to have the position or out of tolerance display in the excel form report output. 

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Add Constrained L2 as a "bestfitmathtype" for auto & constucted features

DAN_M_413 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS updated by Jon Wood (NinjaBadger) 10 months ago 1

Suggestion:

Add Constrained L2 as a "bestfitmathtype" for ALL auto & constucted features.

Reasoning:

This would give users who use PCD's "Legacy Dimensioning" but do not want to use "Geotol" to create measured features that comply with the latest revision level of Y14.5 

Currently, you can do things like....measure a plane and then "CONSTRUCT" a PRIMARY plane...but I believe my suggestion takes the "primary/secondary/tertiary" construction stuff the rest of the way. 

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Rotary table calibration - Add multiple levels to sphere measurement

Art Deyo 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS updated by Guillermo 4 years ago 1

The sphere measurement parameters needs the ability to spread the points across multiple levels. It currently takes only 1 point off the equator. If there is any error in this one point, it has 100% weigh on the calculated height of the ball. Any other point has a reduced weight because they are all taken on the equator. Having points on a additional levels would balance the Z-position of the calculated sphere.

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probe Rename or Copy and Rename option

Guillermo 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS updated 4 years ago 0

Add an option within the Probe Utility dialog or under File Operations to allow copying and/or renaming of current probe.  Very often users create probes during program development and later on need to clean up or standardize naming conventions.
Would be great to be able to have system not only copy and/or rename the PROBE file, but also all of the dependencies.  Specially in the case of PCDMIS Vision as there are more files than just a .PRB involved.

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Marked Set Name in Variable

Lorenzo 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

I think it would be great to have the Name of the active "Marked Set" in an easily accessible variable in PCDMIS.

We often have Short and Lonv versions of routines. If that would be possible, one might have 2-3-4... marked Sets extracting the Name of the set from the variable to print it into the report...

For now You'd have to make for every marked Set something like MarSet = "Long Version" and mark it only in Long Version and so on...

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Excel form report file location

Mitja Smrekar 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

Make that we can specify our own location where to save excel form report (other disk or network location). As I understand, now it has to be saved under users/public/etc. I is anoying to copy thoose files to our specific location on the disk. 

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Intutive Graphical analysis in PC-DMIS

Prasanna S 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

Graphic analysis should go more intuitive. especially in tool rooms, If I want to analyze the measured data of profile for example and with results showing OOT, I should be in a position to know the "area of improvement" which is the sole purpose of inspection. The graphic analysis should allow the user to have dynamic interaction under "administrator" ONLY privileges.  So, I should be in a position to remove the point or area of interest to check if the parts become OK or not ok directly in GDW. This capability should be available for all material inspections like PROFILE, FORM, and Hexagon can add whatever in addition on top of this. I also want to see the DATUM SHIFT just like a table being represented graphically and showing red/green in graphic and available tolerance after datum shift in green forex. This will help design cost reduction analysis and avoid unnecessary tolerance stack-ups or unwanted addition to feature tolerances graphically.  also, it should be dynamically updatable once the datum modifiers are removed in GDW AND HELPS THE product designer to make a decision. This is the next step in metrology software where the industries are heading for and I hope Hexagon wins the race here to differentiate PC-DMIS from other software.

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PEEK window for CAD

Prasanna S 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

Just like a PEEK window in a Summary mode, I would like to see the PEEK window for the CAD model. For example - When I hover a mouse over a CAD model and it is especially useful when I have measured lots of features in CAD and I don't want to switch to the summary mode and don't want to have labels or diminfo. ON to see some results, just hovering the mouse should display RESULTANT's ( diameter, XY info. , Height, Major/Minor dia, etc.) ONLY. based on current alignment for coordinate info. This will be very useful just like id's being showed up when hovering the mouse.

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Modernize PEEK window

Prasanna S 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

As of now, the PEEK window is like a black & white TV. :).  It should be more colorful and a have good visual appearance.

I want to see THEO's, ACTL, in different colors (may be color setting)? and also resultants (diam, height, major/min dia's of Cone for example.), etc. in a different color. 

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New Summary mode should have sorting functions or options to sort dimension based, command based etc.

Prasanna S 4 years ago in Metrology Software / PC-DMIS 0

The new Summary mode is Great!!!, Many of my customers like it here in Australia. I would like to see PC-DMIS having sort options that automatically sorts the MR based on commands and dimensions, For Ex - I might have added dimensions after each feature and I want all to go after features or end of the program. Similarly, there may be times where I would look for dimensions to go and add at the end of features.  Basically, all the analysis views, dimensions, features, etc. should be available for sorting NOT the MOVES and the way the program was written. An optimized path function should be allowed to take care of this. This request is basically for features, dimensions, analysis commands, constructed features ( at the end forex), and for commands which are not affecting the movement of the machine. This should work for all legacy programs as well.

Secondly, the reporting should get updated automatic based on the sorting in the summary window and also it should work for all legacy programs written in older versions - As a 3rd request - if I want to add CAD view for the corresponding dimensions, there should be an option where the CAD views are added based on CAD normal to dimension views instead of me taking Snaps and looking for view sets and add images. I am not sure if this can be a separate request, but, this is how we want to see. automatic and reduce more effort in programming. anyway, thanks for making summary mode neater.