Pc-dmis Reportin

[Chris Murphy]

Does anyone know why DMIS, when it prints reports, it compounds every time you run the program? I'm doing a capability study that consists of 7 surface points for this particular part. I have to run 30 pc's through this same program. For instance say I'm on my 2nd piece and the program runs all the way through and prints the report automatically to a file. When I open that report up it shows two sets of the same 7 surface points. As I keep running more parts it shows more and more sets of the same surface points. Does anyone know why this happens. If so please reply
Thanks,
Chris Murphy
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[JamesMannes]

In the print setup area you have append report checked. Uncheck it and you will only get 1 at a time.

[Chris Murphy]

What next?

In order for me to de-select the Append I have to select another option. I've tried all of them and they still are compounding. I'm using v4.1. Does this make a difference? The only way I've found to print just the one report is to wait until the program is finished and go into the report mode and print it from the screen. This is time consuming so I'm still open for suggestions.
--Chris Murphy

[JamesMannes]

You have tried "auto"? If you have, close PC-DMIS, go to the folder where PC-DMIS resides, find your folder for your screen name, open, within that folder you will find a file called executegbarstate, delete it. Reopen PC-DMIS and open your program, set the Report Print Options to file, select the path to where you want the files sent, choose "auto", click "ok". Run the program. While the program is running, go to "view" and ensure that the "report is being viewed while the part is running. You can minimize the report window, but for the report to be printed correctly the report window must be open.

[tjones]

So you are looping a program and never ending that program between reports. That also happens with me when using a loop to continously check a feature withen a loop. I do not know if there is a way to do this unless this can be done using a sub program.

I have not tried it yet but I wonder if you call a sub program if it will send 1 report for each loop of the sub or continue with the same report?

I would like to do this as well but have not tested this yet.