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From Geopak to PCDmis

RBHouse
My company is currently running a retro-fit Mitutoyo that still has Geopak on it. At any moment the Geopak could die. I have been given the task of training all the inspectors how to use PCDmis. Problem is I am new to it myself, and I have never operated the CMM using the Geopak software. I have used alot of information on site to get through most situations. After training a couple of inspectors, they would like to find a way to run it somewhat like the Geopak runs. Ex. Position the probe at an approximate center of a hole at the depth you want to check it at, hit the circle key, tell it how many hits, etc..Basically, do an Auto circle without making a full blown program with alignments an such. We mostly just do round stuff that we can't check any other way. Can PCDmis do this? Or any other suggestions?

Thanks for any input on this subject,
Ron
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  • As I had to transit programs from Geopak, I was convinced it was best to stay with Mitutoyo (and I realize this site is devoted to PC-DMIS). The main reason was that the programs have some similarities with MCosmos, the later version, if you will, of Geopak. What helped a lot, too, was that I was able to print the programs from Microsoft Word (or Wordpad), and us them as a guide to creation in MCosmos. You could do that with the other programs, as well yet with slightly more difficulty. If I recall, the file to print is the one with the ".P" extension. Access is gained through DOS. You can also copy the files to a Windows PC, and print from there.

    Thanks very much,

    Could you explain how to copy the files to a windows PC.......
    The programmer for Geopak doesn't have the best english and when I asked her to back up all the programs I got the I need time I need time yada yada excuse.
    Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how to back up the programs just in case the computer crashes(step 1), could you help there too?

    (step 2) Copying the programs to another windows PC sounds like a good idea too.\

    any help really would be great.
    thanks
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  • As I had to transit programs from Geopak, I was convinced it was best to stay with Mitutoyo (and I realize this site is devoted to PC-DMIS). The main reason was that the programs have some similarities with MCosmos, the later version, if you will, of Geopak. What helped a lot, too, was that I was able to print the programs from Microsoft Word (or Wordpad), and us them as a guide to creation in MCosmos. You could do that with the other programs, as well yet with slightly more difficulty. If I recall, the file to print is the one with the ".P" extension. Access is gained through DOS. You can also copy the files to a Windows PC, and print from there.

    Thanks very much,

    Could you explain how to copy the files to a windows PC.......
    The programmer for Geopak doesn't have the best english and when I asked her to back up all the programs I got the I need time I need time yada yada excuse.
    Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how to back up the programs just in case the computer crashes(step 1), could you help there too?

    (step 2) Copying the programs to another windows PC sounds like a good idea too.\

    any help really would be great.
    thanks
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