So I've been having problems conveying to the engineers at IPI Visual Fair my exact requirements for a DMIS parser to import CMM data into Visual Fair, and I was wondering if anyone had run across the same situation. I had a parser developed for Calypso no problem, but in Calypso each characteristic has the ability to assign it's own "comment". These comments can be whatever you need them to be, including multiple instances of the same comment across multiple characteristics. I had them work out a parser where, say I have 8 holes and need FCF position reported. The "bubble number" on the drawing for this feature is (1). So for Calypso I can generate 8 separate characteristics for position, enter the number 1 in all 8 comment fields, and the parser will sort through all items numbered 1 reporting only the worst outage to satisfy the single DRF callout on the report. I'm trying to get something similar worked out for DMIS, but I'm having a hard time with the guy at Visual Fair since he insists the only place to enter the "bubble numbers" in DMIS would be in the name of the characteristic, i.e., instead of LOC1, I would enter the bubble number only as the name. The problem lies with DMIS requiring all characteristics to have a "unique identifier", therefore I can't fill in 8 LOC dimensions with bubble number 1 and have it sort them using the same logic. I also haven't found a way to utilize Xact Dimensioning with any success. Anyone else have any experience with these guys, or any insight to another location within the DMIS programming that can have repeat entries and will show up on an Excel export? Thanks in advance.
Chris