While there aren’t statistically significant research reports available, the general word on the streets is that PC-DMIS represents greater than 50% of the marketplace.
Does the future of a all CMM programming all run through this very expensive software package?
Hexagon has released as update of DataPage, which provides integration with PC-DMIS, the de facto standard CMM software. DataPage+ provides meaningful way to quickly share CMM data with shop floor appplications such as SPC.
An interesting article in American Machinist about new software to reduce the time to create CMM programs.