Has anyone thought of writing a visual basic program that will allow you to write at leas a simple PC-DMIS program from scratch, or at least code that will direct PC-DMIS to measure a part.
you might want to take a look at PCDMIS Inspection Planner
http://www.pcdmis-ems.com/ems/pcdmisip.htm It is supposed to do everything that you are trying to do, but as Matthew said, the engineer has to put all the data into the cad model for it to really work right. That being said, I have seen Inspection Planner work. It is pretty cool.
you might want to take a look at PCDMIS Inspection Planner
http://www.pcdmis-ems.com/ems/pcdmisip.htm It is supposed to do everything that you are trying to do, but as Matthew said, the engineer has to put all the data into the cad model for it to really work right. That being said, I have seen Inspection Planner work. It is pretty cool.