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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 little trick I discovered... You can remote into your cmm pc and work offline on a separate pc. Our IT vendor set it up for me with just a few clicks.
    Maybe someone could help me do even better... Our Sheffield RS5 was down for a week due to a burnt out read head bulb. I was hoping to remote in and offline program with it while it was down, but pcdmis would not initialize because the cmm could not home. I tried starting it with the /f offline switch (running as admin) but that didn't help, it still required the homing operation in order to initialize. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
    I thought of manually trying to home it, but was not sure how to go about it and also wonder if that would work anyway since the Y axis reader wasn't working?
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  • A little trick I discovered... You can remote into your cmm pc and work offline on a separate pc. Our IT vendor set it up for me with just a few clicks.
    Maybe someone could help me do even better... Our Sheffield RS5 was down for a week due to a burnt out read head bulb. I was hoping to remote in and offline program with it while it was down, but pcdmis would not initialize because the cmm could not home. I tried starting it with the /f offline switch (running as admin) but that didn't help, it still required the homing operation in order to initialize. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
    I thought of manually trying to home it, but was not sure how to go about it and also wonder if that would work anyway since the Y axis reader wasn't working?
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