By the time you are ready to make your decision, the long awaited Version 3 of PC-DMIS should be out. (It is already being demonstrated and used unofficially by a number of custmers.) In any case, this version offers direct links to SDRC Ideas and to most Zeiss CMMs (among others). You may want to contact Al Chaisson in the Brown & Sharpe office in Nashville, 615-331-0800 to take a look at PC-DMIS. After all, it doesn't hurt to look.