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Offline Program with an Online Seat

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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  • More like 50,000 licenses now, with probably less than 10% offline. It's more complicated than you give it credit, and certainly it most likely has to do with offline licenses. If you guys think offline licenses should be free, come do some programming for me for a few months, I can't pay you for your work though, but you like it and would do it anyways right? I've got some great ideas that just need programming. Slight smile

    NO one is saying that an offline license should be free, what they ARE saying is that the seat we have purchased for the CMM it is on SHOULD also work with the controller OFF/broken/etc.
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  • More like 50,000 licenses now, with probably less than 10% offline. It's more complicated than you give it credit, and certainly it most likely has to do with offline licenses. If you guys think offline licenses should be free, come do some programming for me for a few months, I can't pay you for your work though, but you like it and would do it anyways right? I've got some great ideas that just need programming. Slight smile

    NO one is saying that an offline license should be free, what they ARE saying is that the seat we have purchased for the CMM it is on SHOULD also work with the controller OFF/broken/etc.
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