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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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  • Back in the day (2004 specifically), our old IBM PS2 quit (DOS) that ran our Geopak cmm. I physically remounted the hard-drive into an IBM Series 80 machine that had an older version of Windows on it and just copied the program folders over. Ran just fine until years later we upgraded to MCosmos with a new PC.

    We had to use only certain IBM PC's because the GPIB card was for an MCA slot, not ISA or PCI (even though we probably could have tracked down a PCI interface card, but hey I had just found several functional Series 80 computers on the curb so it was a freebie with just a little time invested.

    Just keep in mind DOS based CMM software is dated (functional but dated). There are many productivity gains that can be had by weaning off of them and transitioning into new software.


    (for actually backing up, either copy the directory over or print out hard copies)
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  • Back in the day (2004 specifically), our old IBM PS2 quit (DOS) that ran our Geopak cmm. I physically remounted the hard-drive into an IBM Series 80 machine that had an older version of Windows on it and just copied the program folders over. Ran just fine until years later we upgraded to MCosmos with a new PC.

    We had to use only certain IBM PC's because the GPIB card was for an MCA slot, not ISA or PCI (even though we probably could have tracked down a PCI interface card, but hey I had just found several functional Series 80 computers on the curb so it was a freebie with just a little time invested.

    Just keep in mind DOS based CMM software is dated (functional but dated). There are many productivity gains that can be had by weaning off of them and transitioning into new software.


    (for actually backing up, either copy the directory over or print out hard copies)
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