Spray paint company makes laser scanning choice
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Laser Design product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 2, 2007
Wagner Spray Tech will use the Surveyor DM-1620 3D to improve the quality inspection process for injection-moulded plastic parts.
Laser Design has sold a Surveyor DM-1620 3D laser scanning system to Wagner Spray Tech, a Minneapolis-based company that specialises in innovative spray paint technology.
Wagner will use the system to improve the quality inspection process for injection-moulded plastic parts.
Laser Design scanners are also used for reverse engineering part prototypes.
Laser Design customers can create a model made using an easily shaped material and then laser scan it quickly and accurately into a CAD file for testing.
Creating a detailed CAD model of a complex part is very difficult to do with traditional measuring instruments such as CMMs (co-ordinate Measurement Machines), but this is the laser scanner's forte.
The Surveyor DM-1620 is an accurate, fast, and very easy to use manual scanning system with a 406 x 508mm work volume.
It is ideal for scanning small- to medium-sized parts that have complex shapes and freeform surfaces, such as the injection-moulded plastics used in paint sprayers by Wagner and in other manufactured devices.
The compact DM-1620 system is easy to install and to maintain.
A CMM touch probe option is available for the DM-1620 for customers requiring contact as well as noncontact measurements.
Because the laser scanning system projects a line of laser light onto a part while cameras continuously triangulate the changing distance and profile of the laser line as it sweeps along, the problems of missing data on an irregularly shaped surface are eliminated.
The system measures fine details and captures complex freeform geometry so that the object can be exactly replicated or inspected.
Laser line scanners gather upwards of 50,000 points per second and generate huge numbers of data points without the need for complex templates or fixtures.
Surveyor Scan Control software adds versatility and functionality to the DM-1620 systems by controlling the laser probe settings and providing advanced data capture and editing features.
The digitised scan data can be processed further with optional software from Laser Design's Solutions Partners such as Geomagic.
Wagner Spray Tech has full research and development, engineering, manufacturing, and distribution capabilities, marketing its extensive line of painting and decorating products and services worldwide.
"Laser Design has hundreds of system installations around the world that are instrumental in supporting engineering, manufacturing, and engineering applications in many industry sectors, such as aerospace, automotive, and telecommunications, just to mention a few", according to Martin Schuster, President of Laser Design.
"We are very proud of our leadership role in the industry, helping our customers streamline and improve their manufacturing and inspection processes".
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