Hello

Being able to make a constructed circle tangent to 2 circles by imposing the diameter would be useful. For the dimensions on gable pins with rounded teeth for example… This exists with tangent to 2 straight lines so why not 2 circles…

Cordially,

This would allow to scroll farther back in time and see more than only the last 30 measurements.

In construct circle, need an auto cone to pierce an auto sphere and construct a circle where it pierces it 

Below shows the cone piercing the Sphericle radius to get the Ø18  (the Print is missing the diametrical symbol)

FBM (Feature Based Measurement) should be added as a Standard Module. Currently this option is only available if your PC-DMIS license is programmed with the Feature Based Measurement module.

2022.1 Help file - Using Feature Based Measurement

The Feature Based Measurement (FBM) method is an optional feature in PC-DMIS. FBM functionality is only available if your PC-DMIS license is programmed with the Feature Based Measurement module.

FBM offers collision-free measurement of any dimension in a measurement routine.

Mini routines provide the user interface that enables you to execute a measurement routine that you create with the FBM method. Sub mini routines provide the facility to create the structure to measure tool-based, cell-based, and operation-based features from the measurement routine.

FBM is useful in situations where you want to do the following:

• Create a measurement routine for a complete, manufactured part and still be able to use the same measurement routine to measure the part, or a single feature, after each operation
• Quickly measure only selected features; for example, you may want to change tools on a fully-automated manufacturing line
• Run a partial measurement routine

For more information on FBM:

2022.1 Help file link

PC-DMIS Help Center - 2022.1

PC-DMIS User Forum link

FBM (Feature Based Measurement)

When we use trace field for input general data about parts which we measure. Trace field dialog shows up on screen. Dialog can be resized only in left and right side, but it can't be resize for up-down?!. When we have a lot of trace fields we need to use scroll bar, and this is waste of time, and that is not very user friendly. Please make change and dialog that can be resized in both direction. 

In inspect 5.1 we have been given the opportunity to schedule a calibration or Swift check. could it be possible to extend the "schedule" function so it becomes possible to schedule a specific program to run every  hour, day, week or year.

see example:

In Inspect, the serial numbers (or other trace) can be entered in the pallet screen prior to measurement.

It would be useful to have an option where the serial number for each cell could be scanned in using barcode, to make this process more efficient and less error prone

Filed on behalf of a customer.

Inspect users with multiple CMM's - and who want to have the same settings (playlists, tracefields et cetera) on all the stations - are storing these settings locally on every station. This is time consuming every time they update the playlist and tracefields. Users need to update every station in this case and they loose a lot of time and make possibly erros. 

It would be nice if Inspect users can store these settings on the network drive, so that you can change the playlists and tracefields from your offline station and then all your other Inspect stations are up-to-date. 

Add the ability to add/ subtract widths/ lengths when reporting distance where a feature is an auto -slot.  Currently we can only report to the center of the slot unless a lot of hoops are added.  It's almost as common in my experience for a slot to be located to the edge instead of the center.  Auto-slots are faster to code but are limited in reporting capability.

With GeoTol, you cannot change/use other nominals than the ones that were used for the creation of the feature. This is good, but are problematic at times.

For example, I have a part where I am using one alignment to measure the entire thing (using CAD). This is not a problem if all the features on the drawing is dimensioned according to this one alignment, finetuning the nominals (in essence, rounding them off) is not a problem and I can get the dimensions to match the drawing for easy orientation report VS drawing.

Now, for a section of this print, the alignment has rotated 15° and the dimensions are according to this rotated view. In GeoTol, I will not get the drawings dimensions, but the dimensions are recalculated from the previous alignment to this 15° rotated alignment, meaning that I have no way to adjust the nominals to match the print (can't round them off). My only option here is to measure them IN the rotated alignment and adjust (finetune/round off) the nominals when measuring in order to get the correct nominals in GeoTol and subsequently, the report.

Getting my point?

Would it be possible to be able to change the nominals in the GeoTol evaluation (TP in this case) to use in the evaluation - not affecting the features noms (in whatever alignment they were created)? This would help immensely in situations like these, or are there a more elaborate way to use as workaround?