Hexagon's website(s), in general are really opaque and difficult to navigate. They've lost boatloads of sales because I can't find hardware on their website, so I just order off EBay, Q-Mark, or fabricate things like probe racks myself. Only exception was when one of their salesmen happened to cold call seconds before I ordered $4,000 of stylus holders elsewhere.
I personally prefer database programs such as Calypso or Quindos, but regardless, it was critical to have had one person in charge of high-level planning and testing. Unfortunately, because that was not done many years ago, it's far too late to fix things now.
One example of a linear program disadvantage is the way PC-DMIS slows down dramatically whenever large numbers of points are used in features (it seems to be recalculating EVERYTHING; make a change to CIR_5003 and PC-DMIS reprocesses all the way back to datum A, which can take many minutes with a large program, where Calypso or Quindos only thinks about CIR_5003, which takes a split-second).
One example of poor program management is inconsistency in data entry field ("Spacer" on a circular path entered as radius, but swith to TTP circle, now you enter as diameter. Why?).
One example of legacy mistakes being impossible to correct is rotation about axis' in some fields such as alignments. Rotate +80 degrees about X-positive should be the same as rotating -80 degrees about X-negative. It's not. If they were to fix the code now, thousands of legacy programs would no longer work. That mistake should NEVER have left some long-gone programmer's desk, let alone released to market.
