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Anyone use Discus and PC-DMIS?

drewk1
Just trying Discus http://www.discussoftware.com/ to see if it will speed up our FAI process.

Just wondering if anyone is using it in anger and has any tips etc.

One thing I would like to know is how to generate pcdmis reports in .txt format.

I'm sure I know but am having a blonde moment and all is blank.
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  • I insert report comments before each dimension that note the FAI balloon number.
    I don't bother to use special names for the dimensions or features (other than to help me ID them), and I don't usually try to keep the numbers in order.
    CMM items are circular balloons and manual inspection items are hex balloons.

    First step to creating a CMM program is to create the ballooned FAI document.
    Then I enter the report comments into the program as each dimension is created

    In the above examples item 1 is the diameter of cylinder C, item 1.1 is the TP of that cylinder, item 16 is the diameter of a bunch of pilot holes and item 38 is a note in the P/L than defines the tolerance for the location of the pilots.

    (I'm glad I put up this post. I just found an error in the program; the tolerance on cyl C diameter.)

    You are already doing everything that is required to facilitate automated results import into discus using their cmm results module. All you would have to do is change the report comments to the format that DISCUS needs (documented in the help file).

    I really like your idea of using a different shaped ballot for manual checks! That's a fantastic idea.

    Ballooning the screen shots of the MBD tolerances is a pretty cool idea as well. They have a 3D module for this - but I've no idea how well it works, or how many CAD packages are supported.

    And I'm glad I could help out with the tolerancing issue Wink
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  • I insert report comments before each dimension that note the FAI balloon number.
    I don't bother to use special names for the dimensions or features (other than to help me ID them), and I don't usually try to keep the numbers in order.
    CMM items are circular balloons and manual inspection items are hex balloons.

    First step to creating a CMM program is to create the ballooned FAI document.
    Then I enter the report comments into the program as each dimension is created

    In the above examples item 1 is the diameter of cylinder C, item 1.1 is the TP of that cylinder, item 16 is the diameter of a bunch of pilot holes and item 38 is a note in the P/L than defines the tolerance for the location of the pilots.

    (I'm glad I put up this post. I just found an error in the program; the tolerance on cyl C diameter.)

    You are already doing everything that is required to facilitate automated results import into discus using their cmm results module. All you would have to do is change the report comments to the format that DISCUS needs (documented in the help file).

    I really like your idea of using a different shaped ballot for manual checks! That's a fantastic idea.

    Ballooning the screen shots of the MBD tolerances is a pretty cool idea as well. They have a 3D module for this - but I've no idea how well it works, or how many CAD packages are supported.

    And I'm glad I could help out with the tolerancing issue Wink
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