White Light Scanning

Atos / Gom

We had Capture 3D in to do a demo with an ATOS package. The Gom software looked like it had some potential as well. In actual practice though, hows the setup time and accuracy compare to that of one of your CMMs using PCDMIS?

Capture 3D is who demo'd at our place also.
Set up time was minimal. The the one block he did for us was a pretty large form steel from a hot stamp die. (Size aprox. 5 x 8 x 12 inches.) Had some complex shapes. With the unit he had, I forget the 'resolution', it took him about 20 minutes to take enough pictures to get the data he wanted. Everything stitched together real nice and there were no obvious problem areas.
This generated something like 500,000 points. When the software was done 'editing', there were around 53,000 points. It would take me a bit more than a couple hours running surface scans on a cmm to generate 53,000 points. He claimed accuracy of +/- .001" at the resolution he was scanning, with the unit he had. the pictures he was taking were pretty close to the block, so he was getting points with a tight spacing.
Even if he was a bit bold in describing the accuracy, this would still be good enough for our reverse engineering needs. Plans also include receiving inspection of machined replacement details for our stamping dies. Mgt. wants 100% inspection on all outside sourced replacement tooling. We are doing aprox. 0% right now.

Atos / Gom

We had Capture 3D in to do a demo with an ATOS package. The Gom software looked like it had some potential as well. In actual practice though, hows the setup time and accuracy compare to that of one of your CMMs using PCDMIS?

Capture 3D is who demo'd at our place also.
Set up time was minimal. The the one block he did for us was a pretty large form steel from a hot stamp die. (Size aprox. 5 x 8 x 12 inches.) Had some complex shapes. With the unit he had, I forget the 'resolution', it took him about 20 minutes to take enough pictures to get the data he wanted. Everything stitched together real nice and there were no obvious problem areas.
This generated something like 500,000 points. When the software was done 'editing', there were around 53,000 points. It would take me a bit more than a couple hours running surface scans on a cmm to generate 53,000 points. He claimed accuracy of +/- .001" at the resolution he was scanning, with the unit he had. the pictures he was taking were pretty close to the block, so he was getting points with a tight spacing.
Even if he was a bit bold in describing the accuracy, this would still be good enough for our reverse engineering needs. Plans also include receiving inspection of machined replacement details for our stamping dies. Mgt. wants 100% inspection on all outside sourced replacement tooling. We are doing aprox. 0% right now.