At the moment, INSPECT is not very useful for Vision machines, as without seeing the camera view, then the manual alignment features are impossible to position.

Currently, PCDMIS measures by "rows" following along the diameter before moving up or down the height of the cylinder once it has completed the circle at that height.

It would save a lot of time if we could toggle to measure by “columns” first, measuring up or down the length of the cylinder first before moving radially to the next part of the cylinder.

Adaptive Cylinder Line Scans measures with a very similar path on a scanning CMM.

This could drastically speed up measurement time on parts with large diameters but shallow lengths.

CMM Manager has a feature like this, and it cut 30 seconds off of the runtime of one part.

It would make it easier to follow the program and edit directly in the code at the same time

Add a Seach Path "Group" field. I support programing for multiple sites and vendors off/online. Setting up a "group" search path would be a great help. Option to imbed search path in the program routine may be nice as well. Things get messy with 12+ sites/vendors. I can switch sites multiple times in a day.

Allow/Enable the Compatibility of the 3D Connexion Space Mouse (CAD Mouse)

In PCDMIS-Vision I would like a switch on/off setting to generate all images captured by the camera during a program run including the display of the measured points. This raw vision data would be extremely useful for root cause analysis.

It would be similar to the existing Diagnostics tool but available in run mode and not requiring to be turned on for each feature. Vision images tell the story of the measurement and are invaluable for troubleshooting and to support cross-sites communication.

Current installation mechanism requires local login to PC.

This is time consuming and prevents parallel deployment.

Silent installation is documented... but still requires license and local login ?

We work more and more with colors and PMI`s to reduce drawings to a minimum.

At the moment we are at the point, that we can handle RGB colors in our CAD, in the CAM and in the Viewer.

But in our quality department is it not possbile to work with colors in a fast way, because PC-DMIS shows only RGB codes of the Surfaces (Information Surface)

We would wish a to have a possibility to see a tolerance for every RGB color like in Hexagon VISI.

In our business field all companys work already with the similar color code. (Meusburger, VISI, Hasco, VDWF, ....)

Than you don`t need so much time to add PMI`s, because the colors are so much faster and you understand in few seconds the parts and what you have to measure.

Example how you can at the moment see the color in PC-DMIS, but no Tolerance:

This is how you can see it in Hexagon Visi:

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In recent years, there have been more and more customers manufacturing plates for hydrogen fuel cells or heat exchanger with have many small CAD surfaces (thousands of surfaces). If you want to mark a certain area, you need to zoom in and mark from different angles to cover everything. This takes an enormous amount of time!!!

So I would like to have more options when selecting CAD surfaces. Like, select all, select all in my selection (through/not through/visible only and so on.

I'm currently developing Pc-Dmis programs to be used in production. We typically have operators that run parts on up to 4 cmms each - they're performing setup (no manual measurements), loading parts, following prompts and printing reports only. We utilize bar code / 2d matrix scanners, and when the operators have to enter data into an input comment either manually or with a scanner they cannot easily see the text that has been entered. We use full screen input boxes for user input. I do have some programs that have forms, but I am currently the only programmer at our facility that knows how to create them. Would it be possible to add a text size control (full formatting would be awesome, just like on the forum I'm using now) to input/comment dialog boxes?