PC-DMIS use at home

[ttruong]

Can i download and install PC-DMIS at my home computer for personal use and off line program?
I try to install the PC-Dmis V3.7 and it keep asking me for HASP. Ca someone help??

[Ragin1]

For just 15 to $20,000, you to can use PC_DMIS at home.

[Wes Cisco]

Yes, the hasp is the catch. It is also called a portlock or dongle. When you buy a seat of the software you get the hasp/portlock which is a kind of electronic key. That is why anyone can download this software they charge tens of thousands of dollars for, because you can not run it without a hasp/portlock/dongle. HTH

[Don Meredith]

Can i download and install PC-DMIS at my home computer for personal use and off line program?
I try to install the PC-Dmis V3.7 and it keep asking me for HASP. Ca someone help??

PC-DMIS will not run with a "key". It is known by several names: port lock hasp lock, dongle. It plugs into your computer either in the parallel (printer) port or USB port. This is how B&S/Hexagon controls use of their intelectual property.
Even if you do manage to load pc-dmis on your home computer, you would have to have an "offline" license to use it without being attached to a CMM. Another thing to consider: does your home computer have enough RAM and the right video card?
As for "personal use"; your employer, not you, paid for the pc-dmis license. Leave it at work and use it there.

Edit: OK, so while I was typing all of this, two other guys jumped in.

[JCcmm]

Get a life! Don't you get enough punishment at work?

[VONDY]

If you have a port lock on your off-line PC at work, can you unplug it and bring it home and use it on your home PC?

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Yes, but they will not be able to use the pc at work while you have the portlock.

[VONDY]

Yes, but they will not be able to use the PC at work while you have the portlock.

I work 12 hour days, believe me I don't want it at home but was just wondering if it was possible. I have an over seas trip coming up and was thinking that I could bring it along to China while I'm there working. No one else uses this off-line PC besides me anyways. I could still load both versions of PCDEMON's that I use onto a lap top, copy tip profiles, the cad and programs I want to work on, check video/graphics card, what about offline license(?). Hum, I think I'll just take it easy while I'm there - that sounds better anyway.