Hi
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.

Could the Find function in Command Mode be edited as is proposed in the original topic from Aaron Baldauf?https://hexagonmi.userecho.com/communities/40/topics/1335-enhance-search-function-for-groups

With that I mean is to add a checkbox for if you want to search inside groups or not.

The reason:

We have very large programs with lots of groups.

When I for instance do a search for "D20H7_" (in version 2025.1) it takes alot of time. If it is within a group it will expand the group. When I click next it will expand the next group. Et cetera.

Groups that are expanded via this Find keep expanded. So I need to do extra work to search manually for expanded groups that were collapsed.

I already talked to Hexagon and they proposed the search function in Summary Mode, but that is very different and not suffcient to my needs.

Plus, I, like so many others, program in Command Mode because I don't want to hoover over a line to get all info like in Summary Mode.

So please make it as proposed by Aaron Baldauf, with a checkbox "Find in groups".

Unchecked = Search as in version 2022.2

Checked = Search as in version 2025.1, and when it expands a collapsed group that when it leaves that group it will collaps it again.

Thanks.

I suggest adding a “remaining travel” and “next action” display for the 3D CMM, similar to what we have on CNC lathes and milling machines. This would give a clear overview of where the machine will move next, helping to avoid collisions and making it easier to follow what happens during program runs or teaching.

Thanks for considering this!

Add Mark used and Global used as parameter set options for Auto Calibrate.

Doing this could eliminate the possibility of forgetting to update the Parameter set when the tips used in a measurement routine is updated.

Function of ALT+P, or another shortcut key, to turn path lines on for highlighted code instead of all instead of having to right click to select

Add more tools to easy manipulate the CAD; Sometimes I get the Model with crazy angles, and it is too complicate to transform it 

Add a search bar for settings at the top of the software.

I can't tell you how long I have had to search for Excel Form Report, analysis, screen capture to file, etc.

When executing a program, not much information is available to you, and knowing how far a probe is about to travel is a great indicator of whether or not you're in the right ballpark.

Simply a value showing how far the probe is going to move before it reaches the point in which it will switch to touch speed or begin moving in another direction.

We see more and more machinist being trained to run PC-DMIS, and this is a comfortable feature they're used to seeing when running their CNC machines. I think it could help prevent many CMM crashes.

Problem:

The group function is often used to keep the routine tidy and organized.

But when you have "collapsed" groups in your measurement routine, the search function doesn't show matches inside of them. The user needs to open all groups first to use the search.

This is very time-consuming. Inexperienced users may not know that they have to open the groups first.

Solution:

Add a checkbox to the search function called "Search inside groups" or similar.

When checked, the search function also looks inside groups for matches.

On initialization of the Optic measuring device, the camera is always zoomed completely on maximum zoom.

This makes it hard to find my piece. I first need to zoom out completely, before I can start. 

For me, I prefer to start with zoom on minimum, but maybe someone likes to start with zoom on maximum.

Can there be an update where we can have that choice?