WOOOHH WHOOOOO, I mirrored my first program...

[rangerboat72]

Just bragging I guess. I'm kind of proud that I actually mirrored my first program. I don't even think I ever accomplished that in the 2 years that I ran Avail or the 6 years that I ran MMIV ! Granted PC-DMIS can be a BEAR at times, it's ten times better than any of the other stuff I've ran...

Have a GREAT WEEKEND everyone ! ! !

[DrBudman]

Cool....

Great... I've only had the opportunity to mirror one program so far and was pretty pleased myself. I ran AVAIL for 15 years before pc-dmis... I agree, pc-dmis is aggravating at times, but leaps and bounds above what I used to use....

Dan

[rangerboat72]

WOW, you ran AVAIL for 15 years . . .

I ran AVAIL for 15 years before pc-dmis...

Wow, you ran that for 15 years... I guess it was already an older software when we finally purchased a new machine. I just didn't understand why our "powers to be" didn't purchase a newer software like MMIV. Wasn't PC-DMIS around back then (1996)? How long have you been running PC-DMIS? It's been a lil' over 2 years for me...

[DrBudman]

AVAIL

It would be closer to 13 years, we've had pc-dmis for 2 years now. I started on a manual B&S Validator back in 1986 using a HP computer and software I don't remember what it was called. I thought it was great when we had the thing retrofitted for dcc... We bought a B&S XCEL 12-20-10 in 1991 with AVAIL software. We did try pc-dmis (dos) for awhile but my boss decided to stick with AVAIL. Like I said, pc-dmis can be aggravating at times, but seeing what I'm used to using, this stuff is great! Editing a program and debugging in AVAIL was terrible.... took really really long. I hated that you always had to edit all the vectors to get good readings.

We have come a long way.. yeehaaa

[DrBudman]

PS

PS... I guess I'm still using AVAIL.... I have hundreds of programs that I still have not re-programmed in pc-dmis. 15 years and running, just no longer programming in AVAIL.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

That software was either VAl-MEAS 200 or VAL-MEAS 300, I remember it, it was a royal pain.

[T Miller]

I started with MM3 on a 386 pc with 4meg ram..... Can you say Dinosaur

[rangerboat72]

I started with MM3 on a 386 pc with 4meg ram..... Can you say Dinosaur

I actually started on a Sheffield Cordax 1808 (manual) with OFI3Plus and a 386 pc and 4 megs of ram. Wow, how things have changed...

[tking]

Congrats on the mirror thing, not so tough huh!

T. King

[Paul Sarrach]

Did all your probe angle convert correctly?

[rangerboat72]

Did all your probe angle convert correctly?

All of them except for the very first probe angle. It was kind of weird, but the first probe angle came up @ 90, 180 when it should have simply been 0, 0 ? ? ? That was an easy fix though...

[\v/inston]

Congrats on the mirror thing, not so tough huh!

T. King

ya i think i mirrored like four programs last week, the more you do it the easier it gets. i belive there are only three steps.

chose program to mirror
save mirrored program as
fix tip angles

[Rick Coleman]

pretty easy stuff

Once you get used to it, mirroring is pretty easy. Just have to remember to check tip rotations. Seems like about 90% of my parts are RH/LH, so the mirror comes in REAL handy. Huge time savings, also.

[johnboy]

Mirroring is a great timesaver. To save even more time I, whenever possible, delay the mirroring of a program as long as possible. If time/schedule permit I want to do all my corrections/improvements of the original program first, eliminating making edits to BOTH programs as much as possible.

[B. Jacobs]

ME TOO

I would like to thank ya'll for these post. I just learned how to mirror my first part. I did have to adjust the probe angles. Once this was done, It worked great. Made my life a lot less hectic. I do alot of As-Shown and Opposites. Now that I learned a new trick, It will speed things along. Once again thanks for the great info on here.