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Offline Program with an Online Seat

KamikazeKonrad
I know this isn't news to many currently using the forum, but for those interested in offline programming when all they have is an online seat (dongle's married to a CMM), there was in the past a workaround to programming offline, that may still work for you.

Download and install PCDmis version 3.5 or earlier on a computer you want to offline program from. Locate the file interfac.dll in the install folder and rename it to anything other than interfac.dll. Plug your dongle into the USB port, and you're good to go. You may not be programming in the latest version, but any newer version will open the older versions saves, and furthermore, with a program like UltraVNC, you can remote access the computer you've set up and program from anywhere.

The only issue is that you can't run your CMM while you have the dongle in another computer.
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  • A VERY good point, I can't see a reason why this would be a license issue or security issue. I will say though, that it may not be easy to implement, because we have to make some way of ignoring the error, but ignoring hardware errors in software is never a good idea, because ignoring them can be potentially damaging. I am open to ideas and thoughts on this.

    PS: Get them to fix the air pressure problem, it is the root source of the issue.

    Brian, you should be able to continue using pcdmis offline if a machine error occurs.
    That way you can save any work you have done without being able to use the cmm directly.
    Is it possible to have pcdmis switch to the offline interface if the cmm hardware kicks out an error message?
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  • A VERY good point, I can't see a reason why this would be a license issue or security issue. I will say though, that it may not be easy to implement, because we have to make some way of ignoring the error, but ignoring hardware errors in software is never a good idea, because ignoring them can be potentially damaging. I am open to ideas and thoughts on this.

    PS: Get them to fix the air pressure problem, it is the root source of the issue.

    Brian, you should be able to continue using pcdmis offline if a machine error occurs.
    That way you can save any work you have done without being able to use the cmm directly.
    Is it possible to have pcdmis switch to the offline interface if the cmm hardware kicks out an error message?
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