Method, system and storage medium for providing an executable program to a coordinate measurement system

A system for providing an executable program from an executable program provider to a customer for use in a controller of a three dimensional coordinate measurement system, the system comprising:

• an executable program provider system coupled to a customer system by a network, the executable program provider system receiving a request to create an executable program and receiving incarnation related to the executable program from the customer system, the information including a description of at least one feature of a part to be measured with the coordinate measurement system;
• the executable program provider system submitting the executable program to the customer system over the network.

Tho system of clam 43 wherein:

• the updated expiration code is provided to the customer system over the network.