TPT July 2011

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of a measuring process is signalised to the software. Following data collection, various analyses can be run in the PowerINSPECT software, for example the comparison of the collected data with all major CAD formats. PowerINSPECT is also able to manage alignment and positioning tasks. The software creates user-defined test reports, including graphical presentations of the results and highlighted deviations. “It’s absolutely necessary that the analysis of measuring data can be done in a fast and comfortable way,” commented Dr-Ing Carl-Thomas Schneider, managing director of AICON 3D Systems. “We are happy that our customers now profit from the new interface to PowerINSPECT next to the already existing plug-in to the software PolyWorks/Inspector.” Aicon 3D Systems GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 531 58 000 60 Email: info@aicon.de Website: www.aicon3d.com Delcam – UK Fax: +44 121 766 5511 Email: marketing@delcam.com Website: www.delcam.com Optical measuring system with interface

AICON has announced that its MoveInspect HR optical measuring system will now be delivered with a direct interface to Delcam’s PowerINSPECT analysis software. MoveInspect HR is a portable coordinate measurement machine, consisting of high-resolution digital cameras and the hand-operated MI.Probe. Data is collected by sampling defined measuring points with the probe, and in doing so, the system even measures hidden points quickly and precisely. In contrast to articulated arms, MoveInspect HR allows for total freedom of movement around the measuring object as there is no mechanical limitation: the only requirement is a line of sight between the probe and the camera system. MoveInspect HR offers a wide field of application, from the geometric inspection of small components to the measurement of entire wind turbine rotor blades. The direct connection of MoveInspect HR to PowerINSPECT offers a great advantage: before the beginning of data collection a measurement plan can be created in the analysis software, which prescribes the measurement procedure in a detailed way. Even inexperienced users will be guided through the measuring- process smoothly. During data collection, the MI.Probe acts as a central control unit. By pressing different buttons on the probe, the measuring process will either be started or undone, or the completion

MoveInspect HR with MI.Probe

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