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ThePudds Interesting, PC DMIS (since i'd say 2019) is pretty stable for me. Never crashes at all unless I do something REALLY funky. Glad your CMM career is progressing/going well!

When I did work with PC-DMIS I worked with 2016. We updated to 2018 after a couple of months of me being in the position and it still crashed in the beginning until we got R2. All I know is that 2016 crashed about 4 times a day if not more. And with C__ypso, we only keep about 3 or 4 programs open at a time. Obviously on PC-DMIS you can't do that. We have 5 different CMMs and only run 3 or 4 different parts on each CMM. Which is why we only keep them certain programs open. All the programming is done on an offline seat on a laptop.

2021.2 on a proper desktop computer is smooth AF

The stability has really improved over the last few years for sure.

When I got started with PC-DMIS it was with version 4.0. I used that for a few years and just though PC-DMIS just crashes a lot. It would often crash even while saving a measuring routine, which would corrupt the file. That sucked! Eventually the company I worked for had to get current on the SMA and upgrade it to whatever version supported a 64-bit OS. After that it only crashed like every other week. I didn't learn until a few years later that PC-DMIS 4.0 was an exceptionally bad build like the 'Windows Me' or 'Windows Vista' version of PC-DMIS.

I agree, PC-DMIS is super stable these days. I maybe crash it once a month, if even that often. Even so, it is normally because I did something silly like put a variable in a feature that refers to itself or something else that makes me think: yeeaah...that was dumb... I probably deserved to have the software crash right then.

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