While programming in Command mode, If you inserted a move command:

MOVE/POINT,NORMAL,<0,0,5>

Then delete the axis that you don’t want to move

MOVE/POINT,NORMAL,<,,5> (This will move only the Z axis to 5 above the current alignment.)

Once we write a program, our shop floor uses protect mode on the CMMs to keep the programs from being messed with. Protect mode automatically enables summary mode.

According to the PCDMIS help file, when summary mode is turned on, PCDMIS will override this setting and move the XY coordinate as well.

|Pasted below from the Help File. Link is also below. Paragraph is at the bottom of the article|

Moving In Only 1 or 2 Axes

In the Edit window in Command mode, you can set one of the axis values to blank (which means that you completely delete the value) to give the axis a relative move of zero during measurement routine execution. This essentially lets you have a hybrid relative and absolute move point behavior using the MOVE/POINT command.

This feature only works fully in Command mode. If you use Summary mode to do this, the field disappears from the Edit window. If you want to then set it back to a number value, you need to set it in Command mode.

https://docs.hexagonmi.com/pcdmis/2019.2/en/helpcenter/mergedProjects/core/21_move_topics/Inserting_a_Move_Point_Command.htm

As an alternative to this post, could we have a Command mode view, yet still keep protect mode on? Whichever would be easier in my opinion.

Could a shortcut key be created or a quick button to turn on and off pathlines in a program? 

In the Chinese version, the following terminologies do not match the Chinese national standard:

Hello PCDMIS gurus and devs.

I would appreciate if PCDMIS had admin panel where I could define all settings once and then point this admin panel to every computer where installation of PCDMIS exists this way If I wanted to change say for example speed of all machines or some other generic settings it would be done from one panel. For example layout of buttons, speed of 3D CMM, loading colors for highlighting code etc. 

Example A is a plane, B and C are two circles laying in plane A. I need to evaluate GD&T relative to A|B-C. B-C should be treated a as pattern. ref case #00757938

Note: B and C are measured on a thin glass lens with a Vision probe on an Optiv Reference machine: they are 2D and cannot be measured as cylinders.

This functionality is supported in other metrology software. This is very frustrating and embarrassing for my customers.

I would like the paste with pattern function to have the ability to follow the CAD nominals surface as it pastes. Currently paste with pattern only applies the pattern offsets to the copied point and does not necessarily follow CAD. This works fine for flat surfaces but does not work for any surface with shape. I understand that paste with pattern "Curve" follows CAD but only the edge curve. Paste with pattern that would follow the CAD surface would allow users to fill any surface with surface points by only programming one surface point. This would be a huge time saver and give the user the ability to put multiple points anywhere on the CAD surface quickly. With PC-DMIS portable the COP contains millions of points but it is time consuming if you wanted to add rows of surface points on surface with shape. This would be a good feature for Portable or CMM.

I have run into multiple examples of engineers wanting to do their own analysis on the measured CMM data. At times it is difficult to align the part and points in the modeling software. I can export the data and the part model in separate files but not in the same file. 

Beim alten externen Q-DAS Konverter konnten die Ergebnisse manuell exportiert werden mit dem Offline/ASCII Export Button.

Beim neuen integrierten Q-DAS Konverter können die Ergebnisse nicht mehr manuell exportiert werden.

Wäre von Vorteil wenn die Funktion auch im internen Q-DAS Konverter zur Verfügung stehen würde,

weil wenn n.i.O Merkmale nachgemessen werden, muss nicht die ganze Messroutine ausgeführt werden