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MM4 to PC-DMIS

Old CMM Guy
Real quick about myself: Programming CMM for 25+ years. Avail, MM4, and PC-DMIS Cad++

I was wondering if anyone has converted a MM4 program to PC-DMIS.
There are about 100 programs to do. The programs are simple, lines, planes, circles, points and a report.
It is a Brown & Sharpe Xcel machine using Windows XP computer, with the legacy bundle (emulator),and with the old world class controller.
The respond, delay on the computer is unreal, I believe it's going down for the count. .
I have tried the import option in PC-DMIS and just hangs up, or just don't work.
The reason I need to convert the programs is so I can get a newer computer on the CMM.

I would appreciate any feed back...
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  • Wow, that's pretty good....

    I got a program through the converter.
    Going through to debug it, we will see if it's going to be worth it.
    So far the line vectors are wrong, and my spheres are wrong, but got them fixed.

    I need to stop and work on something for production for now.

  • in reply to Old CMM Guy
    you definitely should copy over anything on that PC onto a thumb drive or portable SSD. I had three CMM's with >10 year old hard drives in them, one of the three started to fail. We do have disaster recovery files for all the routines, but nothing for probe files or other configurations. It would have been a nightmare. Replacement SSD's cost us I think $60 each, and it took us less than an hour with IT mirroring the entire old drive's contents over to the SSD. The computers are lightning fast compared to what they were, and we have a warm fuzzy that the imminent HD failures were mitigated.
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  • in reply to Old CMM Guy
    you definitely should copy over anything on that PC onto a thumb drive or portable SSD. I had three CMM's with >10 year old hard drives in them, one of the three started to fail. We do have disaster recovery files for all the routines, but nothing for probe files or other configurations. It would have been a nightmare. Replacement SSD's cost us I think $60 each, and it took us less than an hour with IT mirroring the entire old drive's contents over to the SSD. The computers are lightning fast compared to what they were, and we have a warm fuzzy that the imminent HD failures were mitigated.
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