Chris,
A little history first. I have been a Tutor fan ever since Tutor for Windows was introduced. Started using PCdmis DOS to offline program then PCdmis Windows. Translated all programs to Tutor via DMIS although I did all outputs in Tutor since PCdmis could not do conditional statements at the time and in any case DMIS could not translate them. Became a beta test site for Wilcox & Associate, the people who actually write the code for PCdmis, and roughly three years ago began working with them on a direct Tutor translator which I used very successfully. This avenue works although there were still some bugs in it when all of our DCC CMMs were converted fully to PCdmis since the software had developed conditional statement capability. The advantage to writing programs offline in PCdmis and utilizing the direct translator to Tutor is cost. Roughly 14K for an offline license
but an additional 24k if you convert your CMM to an online station. If you have the bucks this is the way to go but the direct translator method works fine although I would check out how far they have taken its development. There will be limitations but it definitely is workable.

Addison