New Laser Line Sensors Enable Reverse Engineering
August 1, 2014
ZEISS Industrial Metrology has announced the new family of LineScan laser line sensors, designed to improve inspection productivity and enable reverse engineering of complex products on popular CONTURA, ACCURA II and PRISMO CMMs. The new LineScan sensors extend the functionality of your ZEISS CMM and are available with stripe widths of 25 mm, 50 mm and 100 mm.
According to the company, inspection productivity is improved by scanning workpieces at rates of up to 700,000 points/second, with a measurement precision figure of merit (MPE(PF) as defined by ISO-10360-2) as low as 12 um and storing point cloud information in the CMM host computer. With resolution of 1,280 points/line and no need for an extra controller, the new LineScan sensors utilize a 658 nm wavelength visible red light source. Each unit is IP54 certified to protect from dust and water.
The new LineScan sensors are available with the new ZEISS CONTURA, ACCURA II and PRISMO CMMs using the ZEISS RDS probe system and CALYPSO 2014 software. These sensors can also be retrofit to select ZEISS CMMs in the field.
Applications include inspection of car bodies, tools for molds, construction and design tools, as well as reverse engineering of contact-sensitive or finely structured surfaces. Reverse engineering is the process of creating a 3D computer model from a solid object so that additional prototypes can then be made from the model.
The LineScan sensors expand the industry-leading selection of active scanning, passive scanning, camera, line scan and optical triangulation sensors available on ZEISS CMM systems.
For more information contact:
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC
6250 Sycamore Lane
Maple Grove, MN 55369
763-744-2400
www.zeiss.com/metrology
IMTS Booth E-5504
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