I would like, that PC-DMIS makes it impossible to use “invalid” characters (spaces or special characters) in feature names or at least warn the user when using them.

I have seen many problems come from it first hand and also countless forum threads about it.

I would like to have the ability to change the illumination calibration without having to re-calibrate the illumination when I inspect a different type of material.  At this time, if I calibrate the illumination to one type of material, then I can not use the same calibration on a different type of material as effectively.  I would like to be able to toggle between the illumination calibrations.  

As of yesterday, I'm now programming in an office at the opposite end of the factory to the CMM.

The operator isn't always at the CMM especially if it is a long program.

Could PC-DMIS be set to send an email out to specified users when:

1)  the program stops when the probe crashes

2)  the probe needs manually removing/inserting

3)  the program reaches the end

Now when I insert distance dimensions I have to write down the nominal value and tolerance for each dimension. I would like to see PC-DMIS fill the tolerance zones according to nominal dimension (if I choose it; checkbox)  and chosen standard (ISO 2768, DIN16742 TG1-TG8, ISO 16901, ...) (PC-DMIS remember chosen standard within program). Something similar is in Location dimensions but it is only for holes and shafts. I also miss a tool or manual to create my own tolerance maps for standards we used and common tolerances on drawings ( +/- 0.05mm; +/- 0.1mm;+/- 0.2mm;+/- 0.3mm). To sum what I want, more flexibility and automation filling the tolerances for distance and location dimensions.

It would be nice to add a 3d vector approach in auto circle, to measure circles on cone, sphere... without doing it by autovector points.

It would be a good time saver to not need to reprogram if there was a toggle parameter in the edit window for auto features for sensor type

As a PC-DMIS user, it would be an advantage to have a save function in PC-DMIS. Sometimes users are using VB to save the measurement routine. It would be nice if there is a function in PC-DMIS to have a commando in your measurement routine which functions as a Save Routine. 

Allow realtime Report Window within Inspect, I do not want to have to create slideshows for 2,000 programs.

ability to evaluate if a plane is either concave or convex. 

We need a possibility that an user can only open the measuring routine (.PRG) for execution. User in that case means also an operator with full PC-DMIS access and administrator privileges.

Here is the story:

• Customer  has 2 Leica trackers from us with PCDMIS.
• Customer constructs big machines for producing car tires. At several moments they measure the setup from their machine with the tracker. Works all fine.
• Next step: if they sell a VMI machine to a customer they think about also selling a Leica Tracker with PC-DMIS as a kind of measuring tool for their customers.
• They create the .PRG, and want that the routine can only be run in Operator Mode. Reason: they do not want that their customers can edit the original .PRG
• Note: the protected mode in PC-DMIS is not an option.

Another example is the ISO acceptance routines. We have to make sure that they can't be changed.