2023.2 released

Other Improvements

Auto Features
• You can now select a Conical shape from the Control Element list in the Path
Definition tab of the Auto Feature dialog box when you create an Auto Circle
with the Adaptive Circle Scan strategy. This is useful to measure a circle on a
cone-shaped feature. The probe moves perpendicular to the surface of the cone
and the controller scans the circular path at desired height.

CAD
• PC-DMIS now exports a CAD model as a STEP file with the application Protocol
214 when you select the FILE | Export | Part Model | STEP | STEP AP214 menu
option.

Documentation
• The "Extracting Auto Features from Pointclouds" topic in the PC-DMIS Laser
documentation now has information on how to use the Depth option for Auto Circle
feature.

ESF (VWMP)
• PC-DMIS now has optical nm as the default measurement type for laser features.
• PC-DMIS now supports custom naming rule for ESF (VWMP) features. You can
select the Custom option from the Type list in the Naming rules area of the
Extended Sheet Metal Features dialog box.
• PC-DMIS now supports copy and paste parameters in the Extended Sheet Metal
Features dialog box when you use contact probes.
• You can now edit dimension tolerances in the Edit window for ESF (VWMP)
features.
• PC-DMIS now sets the last used pointcloud ID as the default when you add Optical
ESF features in the measurement routine.

GD&T Dimensions
• You can now select the GD&T standard in the New Measurement Routine dialog
box when you select File | New to create a new measurement routine. This means
you can no longer toggle between ASME and ISO standards. Also, PC-DMIS now
shows the GD&T standard in the file header of the Edit window in the Command
mode.
• PC-DMIS now converts all migrated size and geometric tolerance commands to a
single GD&T standard based on the most referenced standard during XactMeasure
migration. To discard the migrated measurement routine and automatically restore
the original version, click the Cancel button on the Migration Report dialog box.

Laser
• PC-DMIS now collects data immediately when you use an HP-L-10.10 sensor
during scanning.
• You can now build a probe using an HP-L-10.10 LITE sensor as a component.
• You can now adjust the scan properties for an HP-L-10.10 LITE sensor from
the HP-L-10.10 Lite Scan Properties tab on the Probe Toolbox when you run your
measurement routine on a CMM with an FDC controller.

Measurement Strategy Editor
• You can now see the grid button for the Ending Offset option when you select
Cylinder from the Features Toolbar of the Measurement Strategy Editor dialog
box. You can use this grid button to enable or disable the smart parameters.

Operating System
• Starting with RDS version 6.3, the Windows 11 operating system is supported.

Reporting
• You can now directly upload the PC-DMIS report data to Metrology Reporting
without the SFx desktop application.

Temperature Compensation
• You can now switch the default sensor from the Default Part Sensor list in the
Temperature Compensation Setup dialog box.

Vision
• You can now see that, when in Online mode, PC-DMIS now shows the correct
controller type information for the Metronics and Embedded Optiv controllers in the
Help | About dialog box.​

What's Fixed (1)

Alignments
• PC-DMIS now displays an error message for alignments that have no associated
features assigned to them. See PCD-129802.

Application Errors
You no longer get application errors:
• When you import VDAFS files. See PCD-238455.
• When you import DMIS files. See PCD-239133.
• When you deselect constructed feature hits in the feature list area of the Construct
Feature dialog box. See PCD-243735.
• When you run a measurement routine in Guess mode, and PC-DMIS tries to create
a manual scan at the same time as a tip change. PC-DMIS now creates the scan
without tip change. See PCD-244245.
• When you change the per-unit flatness orientation vector value in the Edit window in
Command mode. See PCD-245555.
• When you click Apply in the Measurement Strategy Widget after you select the hits
to create a Plane using QuickFeature. See PCD-246544.
• Several changes were made to PC-DMIS to improve its stability. Please see
PCD-235965 for details.

Auto Features
• You can now only type positive values in the Pt. Size field in the Analysis area of the
Auto Feature dialog box. See PCD-1036.
• PC-DMIS no longer shortens the relative vision line feature after the execution of a
measurement routine. See PCD-124510.
• You can now use the Re-Measure option from the Feature Properties area of the
Auto Feature dialog box when you execute an Adaptive Circle Scan or an Adaptive
Cylinder Concentric Circle Scan. See PCD-213128.
• PC-DMIS now proposes the best wrist position (tip) for creating an Auto Circle
feature using scanning strategies when you turn on the Auto Wrist functionality
in the Measurement properties area of the Auto Feature dialog box. See
PCD-226208.
• You no longer get an error message stating that the Horizontal Clipping Must be
larger than Ringband Outer Offset when you create a laser sphere after creating a
laser cylinder. See PCD-238869.
• You can now see all the teach points in the Path Definition tab in the
Measurement Strategies tab of the Auto Feature dialog box when you create
an Auto Plane feature using the Adaptive Free Form Plane scan strategy. See
PCD-240422.
• PC-DMIS no longer displays the Auto Wrist dialog box when you change the Actual
thickness value in the T box in the Feature Properties area of the Auto Feature
dialog box for contact features. See PCD-241305.
• PC-DMIS now correctly calculates the thickness value when you create an Auto
Vector Point or an Auto Edge point in manual mode. See PCD-241841.
• You can no longer edit the NUMROWS parameter for a non-default measurement
strategy in the Edit window in Command mode. See PCD-242393.
• PC-DMIS now correctly creates an Auto Edge Point when you rerun the
measurement routine after you click Cancel in the message box for Comment Text.
See PCD-243849.
• You can now see the correct size of the Sphere Point Symbol in the Graphic Display
window in the same units as the measurement routine when you click Add Path
in the Path Definition tab in the Measurement Strategy tab of the Auto Feature
dialog box after you generate a free form path using the Adaptive Free Form Plane
Scan strategy. See PCD-245663.
• PC-DMIS no longer moves the scan along the feature axis when you create an Auto
Cylinder feature with a Cylinder Centering Thread Scan strategy after you close and
re-open a measurement routine. See PCD-245805.

CAD
• You can now see that the Display Coordinates are set to Datum Reference
Frame instead of Current Alignment in the Nominals tab of the Geometric
Tolerance dialog box when you work with GD&T Selection Mode (from CAD).
See PCD-217350.
• PC-DMIS now correctly displays a CAD model in the Graphic Display window when
you import a CATIA file. See PCD-226262.

Constructed Features
• You can now see the CAD offset boundaries on the CAD model in the Graphic
Display window when you construct a surface using the COP Clean operator with
CAD Offset and Constructed Extracted Surface commands. See PCD-240976.
• PC-DMIS now has improved the memory management for Constructing a Tertiary
Datum Point. See PCD-241602.
• PC-DMIS now correctly sorts the hits in the feature list area of the Construct
Feature dialog box when you take hits on the CAD model in the Graphic Display
window. See PCD-242858.

Documentation
• The "Performing a Low Level Matrix Calibration" topic in the PC-DMIS CMM
documentation is now updated to provide clear information on how PC-DMIS uses
the calculated Low Level Matrix Calibration Values. See PCD-239749.
• The "Hit Arrays" topic in the PC-DMIS Core documentation now has information on
how to use Hit Arrays to define Constructed Feature inputs. See PCD-242835.
• The "Filter" topic in PC-DMIS Laser documentation now has information about the
intensity filter. See PCD-245785.

ESF (VWMP)
• You can now only create multiple Flush or Gap features when you click on the
CAD model in the Graphic Display window to define nominal for new features. See
PCD-241119.
• You can now only create an Optical or an Optical NM measurement type hole
feature when you add a Pointcloud command to the measurement routine. See
PCD-241601.

Execution
• You can now see translated UI text in the Execution dialog box when you press Ctrl
+ Q to execute a measurement routine. See PCD-246698.

Five Unique
• PC-DMIS no longer modifies the Fxtserver.dat file when you restart the system. This
no longer results in a wrong fixturing location for the Five Unique systems. See
PCD-232240.

GD&T Dimensions
• PC-DMIS now correctly handles the common datums when you use the GD&T
Selection Mode (from File) option. This means, when you use a feature control
frame that references a common datum, PC-DMIS will now guide you through
the process of creating individual datum components and then adds a common
datum definition that is referenced in the geometric tolerance commands. See
PCD-211319.
• PC-DMIS now creates a Cylinder feature instead of a Line feature when
you create a straightness callout associated to a CAD entity using
GD&T Selection Mode (from CAD). See PCD-212206.
• PC-DMIS now recognizes the profile all around symbol in the CAD PMI model and
creates the associated feature profile dimensions. See PCD-213621.
• You can now see the minus sign for minus tolerance in the Report window when
you select the Minus Tols Show Negative check box in the Dimension tab of the
Setup Options dialog box. See PCD-219008.
• PC-DMIS no longer sets the tolerance zone math of the lower segment for all the
per unit-tolerances to default. Instead, the lower segment now follows the tolerance
zone math setting of the first (or upper) segment. See PCD-232605.
• PC-DMIS now has an improved GD&T creation from a CAD PMI model. This
provides a better method for PC-DMIS to detect existing features and geometric
tolerance commands, reducing the number of duplicate commands that might get
created. See PCD-236946.
• You can now import GD&T from a file in PC-DMIS CAD. See PCD-240722.
• The legacy Position dialog box now correctly retains the Use datums and Fit To
Datums status when you edit a legacy Position command using the F9 key. See
PCD-242776.
• PC-DMIS now displays the correct icons for Round Slots and Square Slots in the
datum features list area of the Datum Definition dialog box when you select the
Insert | Dimension | Datum Definition menu option. See PCD-244447.
• PC-DMIS now correctly updates the Size Tolerance Editor in the Geometric
Tolerance dialog box when you select a feature in the Graphic Display window.
See PCD-245775.

Laser
• You now see an updated sensor based clipping region when you modify the values
in the Laser Clipping Region Properties tab of the Laser Probe Toolbox dialog
box. See PCD-246068.
• You no longer see Point Reduction Filter list in the HP-L-10.10 Properties tab and
HP-L-10.10 Lite Scan Properties tab when using a laser scan and a laser Auto
feature. See PCD-246665.

Legacy Dimensions
• When you dimension the legacy position of a cylinder with the Worst End method
selected, you are now able to see the nominals carried back to the respective
feature if you edit one of the dimension axes and answer "YES" to the "Carry
nominal back to the feature" message. See PCD-63636.
• PC-DMIS now creates Runout Dimensions only when you select a valid
combination of features in the Feature List area of the Circular Runout dialog box
or the Total Runout dialog box. See PCD-133806.
• You can now see the correct results when you create a legacy position dimension
with a tertiary datum at MMB or LMB for a feature that is not in the Z workplane after
you select the Use Datums and Fit to Datums check boxes in the Position dialog
box. See PCD-240888.

Measurement Strategy Editor
• PC-DMIS now correctly resizes the measurement strategy widget to accommodate
long strategy names. See PCD-196119.
• PC-DMIS no longer creates duplicate strategy names when you create a new
strategy after creating a new group in the Measurement Strategy Editor dialog
box. See PCD-238456.
• PC-DMIS now prompts you to save the Factory Defaults group with a new group
name when you make any changes to any of its parameters in the Measurement
Strategy Editor dialog box and you click the Close button. See PCD-246275.

Moves
• PC-DMIS now supports the CAD selection of an Extended Sheet Metal Features
(ESF) point in the Graphics Display window when you select the Insert | Move |
Move Point menu option. See PCD-245741.
• PC-DMIS now correctly moves the probe in the tip vector direction when you create
an Auto Cone feature after you select Both from the Avoidance move list and
select Along Tip Vector in the Contact Auto Move Properties tab of the Auto
Feature dialog box. See PCD-245877.

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What's Fixed (2)

Probes
• You can now see the load probe message when you execute a measurement
routine that contains a manual LOADPROBE command. See PCD-244218.

Quick Feature
• You can now see the path lines within and between the features when you enable
Quick Path in the Path toolbar when creating Quick Features. See PCD-240746.

Reporting
• PC-DMIS now correctly displays the size of a user-defined label in a custom report.
See PCD-217396.
• PC-DMIS now correctly shows or hides the annotation points in the custom report
as per the viewset when you use the SNAPSHOT command to generate a report.
See PCD-242749.

Scanning
• PC-DMIS now generates a more accurate scan path when you click Ok in the
Patch Scan dialog box after you click Generate in the Theoretical Path area on
the Path Definition tab of the Patch Scan dialog box. See PCD-238773.
• PC-DMIS now correctly switches between arms when you click an arm icon in the
Active Arms toolbar when using an HP-L sensor on a dual arm machine. See
PCD-240292.

Summary Mode
• You can now cut or paste contiguous collapsed group commands in the Edit window
in Summary mode. See PCD-158057.
• PC-DMIS now correctly updates a group in Summary mode when you cut and
paste the ENDGROUP command in the Edit window in Command mode. See
PCD-238289.

Version Support
• You can now only load measurement routines created in PC-DMIS version 2018 R1
and later, and you can only save measurement routines back to PC-DMIS version
2018 R1. See PCD-243745.

Vision
• PC-DMIS now correctly performs an edge focus during probe offset calibration
when you take three manual crosshair points in Man+DCC mode using a jogbox.
See PCD-238694.
• You can now see a horizontal scroll bar in the Hit Target tab when you select YES
for Outlier Filter parameter in the Hit Targets tab of the Auto Feature dialog box.
See PCD-239140.​

neil.challinor Can you share some info regarding getting back the "datum shift" information back in the GeoTol TP evaluations? I'd assume that it needs some code forging to make it optional, preferably placing this checkbox in the report settings of the TP command.

It's in our pipeline but there are other, higher priority items we need to complete first. My current estimate is no sooner than PC-DMIS 2025.1.

My hands are somewhat tied on this because the GDT tools are managed by a different Hexagon team who have responsibility for GDT support in ALL Hexagon products, not just PC-DMIS. Once they make the datum shift information available, my team will start work on any PC-DMIS changes that are required.

Wow! A lot of great stuff in this release!

neil.challinor That is discouraging.

bfire85 , I know, but it's out of my hands I'm afraid. The GDT team are prioritising adding the ability to choose a specific year when selecting the standard which we're currently targeting for 2024.2. It's currently the most highly voted for GDT related item in the ideas centre: https://ideacenter.hexagonmi.com/communities/40/topics/669-xact-measure-gdt-to-have-the-option-to-select-different-versions-of-asme-y145-19942009-ect-not-all

Wow! A lot of great stuff in this release!

Yeah! lots of good stuff.

A big thank you to the Hexagon software staff. Nice work!

yeah! Lots of good stuff.

A big thank you to the hexagon software staff. Nice work!

how about a huge thank you to all of the pc-dmis users that continually post issues and help track down bugs!! You all deserve a big thank you as well!!