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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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  • You can save your work when such a machine error occurs. It's not 100% foolproof, but you can.

    When the error comes up for whatever that requires you to shut down pc-dmis it gives you two options "OK" and "Shutdown" correct? If you click "OK" it pops back up immediately right? Well, not quite - at least not as far as the computer is concerned. If you use your left hand to hold the ctrl key and hit s repeatedly and use your right hand to click on "OK", you can get it to save. You have to go through the error window several times sometimes, but it will save (sometimes). After you think it has saved click on "shutdown". Hopefully it worked.

    Give it a try. Open a program, insert a move point at the end, don't save it, hit the e-stop. You'll get the error message. Do the above steps, shutdown PC-DMIS, restart it, open your program and see if the move point is there.

    BTW, I 100% agree that we should be able to use PC-DMIS "offline" on the computer connected to the CMM with the controller turned off.

    Taking the dongle from one computer to another - I can kinda see that, but I also understand why they don't want you doing that.


    Yeah I've used that trick a time or two. I would also think that the shutdown option would be the same as exiting PCD and save the program on it's way out. At least that is what would happen if it were to make sense. I haven't tested that theory in a while. I would still love to be able to actually use the software though.

    And as for taking the dongle from one computer to another, and again I haven't tested this in a while, but if you don't have the offline liscence on the dongle it won't start PCD without a controller hooked up will it? So the only way I can see this being an issue is if I had two CMM's and only one liscence, then it may do some good but otherwise,and even then I would think that there are a whole other set of headaches that you have to go through just to make it run initially. And doesn't the version that you just took the dongle off of start throwing up a different message if you have a missing dongle? Or is the missing HASP device error message I have seen from time to time not related to the dongle.
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  • You can save your work when such a machine error occurs. It's not 100% foolproof, but you can.

    When the error comes up for whatever that requires you to shut down pc-dmis it gives you two options "OK" and "Shutdown" correct? If you click "OK" it pops back up immediately right? Well, not quite - at least not as far as the computer is concerned. If you use your left hand to hold the ctrl key and hit s repeatedly and use your right hand to click on "OK", you can get it to save. You have to go through the error window several times sometimes, but it will save (sometimes). After you think it has saved click on "shutdown". Hopefully it worked.

    Give it a try. Open a program, insert a move point at the end, don't save it, hit the e-stop. You'll get the error message. Do the above steps, shutdown PC-DMIS, restart it, open your program and see if the move point is there.

    BTW, I 100% agree that we should be able to use PC-DMIS "offline" on the computer connected to the CMM with the controller turned off.

    Taking the dongle from one computer to another - I can kinda see that, but I also understand why they don't want you doing that.


    Yeah I've used that trick a time or two. I would also think that the shutdown option would be the same as exiting PCD and save the program on it's way out. At least that is what would happen if it were to make sense. I haven't tested that theory in a while. I would still love to be able to actually use the software though.

    And as for taking the dongle from one computer to another, and again I haven't tested this in a while, but if you don't have the offline liscence on the dongle it won't start PCD without a controller hooked up will it? So the only way I can see this being an issue is if I had two CMM's and only one liscence, then it may do some good but otherwise,and even then I would think that there are a whole other set of headaches that you have to go through just to make it run initially. And doesn't the version that you just took the dongle off of start throwing up a different message if you have a missing dongle? Or is the missing HASP device error message I have seen from time to time not related to the dongle.
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