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Pas programing software

JIM HARRIS
Is any body out there using this software to write programs.
  • Not personally, but I know a few people that tried it.

    Seems to be interesting. Their philosophy is different. Most CMM softwares start with an empty program and you add features to it (you may or may not pick those features right from the model). Software like the Demons is fundamentally additive.

    PAS is different. They start with the model and automatically generate code that measures EVERYTHING (based on some simple rules that you control). So if you need a complete FAI program, it seems very promising. Also, the DMIS it creates appears to be clean. Now if you do NOT have to measure ALL features, you subtract them from your program. So fundamentally, PAS is subtractive (is that a word???).

    Both approaches have pros and cons. But PAS has been really working hard to address the cons of their software. From what I hear, it is certainly at a level now where people ought to take it seriously.

    Just my $0.02.
  • Is that a pro-licensed program? And how much it cost?
  • PAS update?

    Hi Jan
    I'm revisiting CMM programming, and wondered what is "state of the art" (in your 2015 opinion!) in terms of automated CMM programming software?
  • I recently got an 'invite' to demo this PAS stuff utilizing SolidWorks via one of our vendors. If it works as advertised, it would be a bit scary for us programmers. The good thing is that nothing EVER works as advertised (including PC-DMIS)
    so guess we are all safe. On a side note: Hexagon, those Cimatron rebels are trying to take over your neighborhood. Sunglasses Tell your marketing guys to take the safety off their weapons.
  • ... On a side note: Hexagon, those cimatron rebels are trying to take over your neighborhood. Sunglasses Tell your marketing guys to take the safety off their weapons.

    +1, lmao
  • I recently got an 'invite' to demo this PAS stuff utilizing SolidWorks via one of our vendors. If it works as advertised, it would be a bit scary for us programmers. The good thing is that nothing EVER works as advertised (including PC-DMIS)
    so guess we are all safe. On a side note: Hexagon, those Cimatron rebels are trying to take over your neighborhood. Sunglasses Tell your marketing guys to take the safety off their weapons.



    You do realise you've just asked for more 'enhancements' right? Neutral face
  • Much (most?) of that functionality is already in place, in the PC-DMIS Planner (or HexPlanner? I don't remember right now) product. With that, you can get a pp generated - features, dimensions, collision-tested paths and all, with just a few clicks, assuming all dimensions are correctly entered in the CAD model (works for some CAD systems).
  • I recently got an 'invite' to demo this PAS stuff utilizing SolidWorks via one of our vendors. If it works as advertised, it would be a bit scary for us programmers. The good thing is that nothing EVER works as advertised (including PC-DMIS)
    so guess we are all safe. On a side note: Hexagon, those Cimatron rebels are trying to take over your neighborhood. Sunglasses Tell your marketing guys to take the safety off their weapons.

    PAS Technology appears to be a nice product. But it exports the program in a DMIS format. The last quote I received about three years ago was $17,000.
    As AndersI stated PC-DMIS Planner will do this as well but in a PC-DMIS format.
    Yes, other software companies are making improvements to their products. Like Renishaw's MODUS 2 metrology software and today I was just looking at
    Verisurf Software Modules. So yes PC-DMIS needs a serious UI face lift. Now I haven't had a demo of any of these products and would be awesome if I
    could get a chance to push other metrology software products like these to their limits and rate them. There are lot of different metrology software products
    like these out there and have their own positive and negatives about them as all software do.
  • ... would be awesome if I could get a chance to push other metrology software products like these to their limits and rate them...

    I really wish somebody was out there doing just that! It seems like all the blogs and magazines are just copy/pasting the press release onto their websites. This goes for hardware as well as software. It would be nice if somebody could test this stuff out and publish reviews for it. Kinda like a Consumer Report for metrology. (How about it, Mark Boucher?) Slight smile
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