Thanks Clara.
So it sounds like your dongle or software key allows you to use your "old mirror utility" which is fine with me. Why fix something that isn't broke? I would also hope the "old translators" work as well.
You mentioned "they do still hi-light green if you click on them in the database". Do you mean dragging the plane feature (or circle or any feature) out into the graphics area still hi-lites in the graphic area like it always has (plane is like a 200x200mm sheet of paper) or just clicking on them now hi-lites them? That didn't "work" in my 2013 off-line demo version.
Thanks in advance. I prolly will still have a few more questions. Is "Move" still in the Contruction Toolbar? I couldn't see that one either due to my graphics issue.
Imad was quoting (2) 25" monitors in my last quote. Actually the BIG buttons/Icons don't really impress me. The small ones were just fine. I wish this could be adjusted, but that is one of VDMIS's selling features now: from web page:
"All the existing metrology software are still using the old and obsolete user graphical interface with small icons without titles so the user had always to struggle to guess the meaning of each icon and memorize it.
VDMIS® is the first Metrology software to buck the trend by introducing a new User Interface in High Resolutions, large size icons with titles so the user can find the function he is looking for immediately."
I'm not here to rag on the software or talk it down, but the way the DMIS Edit Window is now attached to the bottom of the programing bar is something I was trying to get used to. I do a lot of editing in this window during program runs so I don't have to open the whole program code & lose anywhere I may have "red-lined" (or Ctrl-LMB click) for temporary program stops during editing. I use the DMIS Edit Window a lot during programming as well. Like copy/pasting then editing an Op. Prompt, Sensor Setting then changing plane clearance or approach/retract, copying then editing GOTO's, copy/pasting then editing Sensor Selects, adding Dimensional Notes or Annotations (Text/Outfil's) in my Tolerancing portion of the program for each feature, etc. Now you have to drag the whole programming bar open to like 6 ½"+ wide to access entire lines of code. Before you could see 6 lines of code in this edit window where as now you can only see 3 lines w/o scrolling. Don't quite understand with such "huge displays & buttons" why this feature was diminshed or made smaller.
I was used to opening the DMIS Editing window & dragging it to a convienent place, but I guess I could get used to the "new & improved" attached window (hint, hint VDMIS software programming guys & gals: how bout making it an option to "pull the DMIS Edit Window" away from the bottom of the programming bar?)
So it sounds like your dongle or software key allows you to use your "old mirror utility" which is fine with me. Why fix something that isn't broke? I would also hope the "old translators" work as well.
You mentioned "they do still hi-light green if you click on them in the database". Do you mean dragging the plane feature (or circle or any feature) out into the graphics area still hi-lites in the graphic area like it always has (plane is like a 200x200mm sheet of paper) or just clicking on them now hi-lites them? That didn't "work" in my 2013 off-line demo version.
Thanks in advance. I prolly will still have a few more questions. Is "Move" still in the Contruction Toolbar? I couldn't see that one either due to my graphics issue.
Imad was quoting (2) 25" monitors in my last quote. Actually the BIG buttons/Icons don't really impress me. The small ones were just fine. I wish this could be adjusted, but that is one of VDMIS's selling features now: from web page:
"All the existing metrology software are still using the old and obsolete user graphical interface with small icons without titles so the user had always to struggle to guess the meaning of each icon and memorize it.
VDMIS® is the first Metrology software to buck the trend by introducing a new User Interface in High Resolutions, large size icons with titles so the user can find the function he is looking for immediately."
I'm not here to rag on the software or talk it down, but the way the DMIS Edit Window is now attached to the bottom of the programing bar is something I was trying to get used to. I do a lot of editing in this window during program runs so I don't have to open the whole program code & lose anywhere I may have "red-lined" (or Ctrl-LMB click) for temporary program stops during editing. I use the DMIS Edit Window a lot during programming as well. Like copy/pasting then editing an Op. Prompt, Sensor Setting then changing plane clearance or approach/retract, copying then editing GOTO's, copy/pasting then editing Sensor Selects, adding Dimensional Notes or Annotations (Text/Outfil's) in my Tolerancing portion of the program for each feature, etc. Now you have to drag the whole programming bar open to like 6 ½"+ wide to access entire lines of code. Before you could see 6 lines of code in this edit window where as now you can only see 3 lines w/o scrolling. Don't quite understand with such "huge displays & buttons" why this feature was diminshed or made smaller.
I was used to opening the DMIS Editing window & dragging it to a convienent place, but I guess I could get used to the "new & improved" attached window (hint, hint VDMIS software programming guys & gals: how bout making it an option to "pull the DMIS Edit Window" away from the bottom of the programming bar?)