I am still in the early stages of learning PAS software, in order to become a future distributor. I have written 2 programs so far, wow. It takes a bit of time to set surfaces that you want measured and to learn the software itself, but as far as programming time, I would say a savings of about 40%.
I can see that once I am not struggling to learn the software, you can spit out programs quite quickly. I am helping them with a couple minor issues with bringing things into Pc-dmis, but it works amazingly well at this point. If you make machined parts, this is the next step to go. The nice part is also being able to output programs for other softwares as well.
I am still in the early stages of learning PAS software, in order to become a future distributor. I have written 2 programs so far, wow. It takes a bit of time to set surfaces that you want measured and to learn the software itself, but as far as programming time, I would say a savings of about 40%. I can see that once I am not struggling to learn the software, you can spit out programs quite quickly. I am helping them with a couple minor issues with bringing things into Pc-dmis, but it works amazingly well at this point. If you make machined parts, this is the next step to go. The nice part is also being able to output programs for other softwares as well.
Are the PC-DMIS programs generated/saved to PC-DMIS native format or to some generic DMIS?
They are saved as Pure DMIS. They can also output for Mitutoyo COSMOS and LK-DMIS and Open Dmis. Its the automation of the programming that is really cool. I have found there may be some editing in Pc-dmis, but most of it is pretty minimal.
Well, we did an online demo with PAS a couple of weeks ago and it looks awesome. We are seriously thinking about purchasing the software soon. I can see where it would have a learning curve to it though. We actually sent them a solid model and they did an online demo with it. Incredible.
jjewell Hi Jim,
I tried to PM you but this forum thinks your inbox is full so it won't let me send you a PM.
I see from this thread you were considering becoming a PAS distributor at one time.
I was hoping you might have some current information about the status of PAS.
We've used PAS for many years.
Our floating license has recently stopped working so we're trying to track down the company and get some support.
PASTECHNOLOGY.COM redirects to highqa.com.
highqa says they haven't supported it for years and were not able to offer any new contacts.
If you never pursued the PAS distributorship, looks like you made a wise choice.
