The primary goals driving the design of PC-DMIS for Windows are flexibility and user friendliness.

To meet these goals, PC-DMIS provides a flexible environment allowing for real-time error correction as opposed to the long, tedious debugging process characteristic of other geometric software packages. It is dimension oriented to reduce the need to analyze and interpret the results of CMM measurements. The techniques used for part programming on a CMM are straightforward and, with practice, systematic.