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PC-DMIS Software to Server connection unbearable. Please help.

Hello. I have a 7.10.7 SF electric machine running PC-DMIS 2020 R2. We all know the unfortunate notoriousness of software crashes. But, I am having too many issues and need help.

From my understanding, I have a virtual dongle and with that, every line of code or action I do with PC-DMIS communicates online to its server base. I have had my software crash several times just from saving as one example. There are also times when I try to re-open the software and when I open a project it says that the server is busy and I have to restart my computer to fix it. (I've checked my task manager and could not find anything to stop in order to avoid restarting the computer).

Should I try to receive a physical dongle like the older machines to avoid these issues? I never had this stuff happen until I started using the virtual dongle. I don't even know if I can do that to be honest.

Also, I haven't done my research thoroughly enough but I'm at the point where I feel I can't trust Exact Measurements versus Legacy anymore. Sometimes the differences in results can be over .001 (inches) and even greater. I know I've set up my datums properly for both ways to spit out the results. I also find it silly how in R1 you could get away with apparently a not properly constrained datum to give results that may be inaccurate and now 2020 R2 won't allow you to even create the feature if it's not constrained right with the datum scheme.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post! I appreciate it.
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  • for real though im not playing that would be WILDLY disappointing. not everybody wants to use their GD&T stuff. I have lots of customers who give me jacked up prints, I need legacy! geotol is great and i can comfortably use it when I need to but if I was forced into only using that, nope see ya!

    Making Constrained L2 as a best fit math type for autofeatures as well as constructed features is what we really need!
  • It has helped me with getting a proper result for symmetry as an example and recently I've been using a mix of both dimension types. But, when I have more complex true positions legacy is master. Sometimes GT will just spit out something nonsensical. I can check my XYZT's of whatever features and it not add up to whatever GT is showing. (Probably something to do with how they want their datums set up but is it really that different now than how legacy has been forever?)

    Polyworks is the up-and-coming software with CMM's in my opinion. I was really impressed with a lot of it's capabilities and it can connect to Hexagon CMM's. The software is certainly different than PC-DMIS and how we program, but I recommend taking a look at it if you're interested. I loved using it for laser scanning with a faro arm and producing color maps for min-max deviations.
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  • It has helped me with getting a proper result for symmetry as an example and recently I've been using a mix of both dimension types. But, when I have more complex true positions legacy is master. Sometimes GT will just spit out something nonsensical. I can check my XYZT's of whatever features and it not add up to whatever GT is showing. (Probably something to do with how they want their datums set up but is it really that different now than how legacy has been forever?)

    Polyworks is the up-and-coming software with CMM's in my opinion. I was really impressed with a lot of it's capabilities and it can connect to Hexagon CMM's. The software is certainly different than PC-DMIS and how we program, but I recommend taking a look at it if you're interested. I loved using it for laser scanning with a faro arm and producing color maps for min-max deviations.
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