Measurement software expands hardware support

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 10, 2006

Camio 4.3 is the first release of the metrology software suite since Metris acquired LK in January and its release is significant in highlighting the rapid integration of the two metrology companies.

Metris is launching the latest version of Camio Studio at the Control Show in Sinsheim.

Camio 4.3 is the first release of the metrology software suite since Metris acquired LK in January and its release is significant in highlighting the rapid integration of the two metrology companies.

With this release Studio further increases its multisensor functionality and the range of metrology hardware that can be successfully ported into the software.

The Camio installation now provides three Windows local user groups: the administrator, supervisor and operator.

An extremely useful feature for the protection of vital configuration data and for the output of set up data within the launchpad for LK Q-Das package.

A major breakthrough achieved in this release is access to manufacturing information.

Version 4.3 now offers this access direct from Catia v5 and Pro/E.

Support available is for reading data annotations such as text,datum geometric tolerance and roughness as well as hole features.

Extraction of the PMI data allows the user to give a list of the GD and T tolerances applied to datum features and ACIS hole features before inserting them into the DMIS program.

With the added inclusion of drag and drop capability the whole process of measuring datum features has been made easier right at the very heart of the programming level.

Further developments include the integration of the Metris laser scanners and improved performance of the crash protection simulation.

Key features can now be scanned directly, evaluated and extracted using construction commands and a new 2D configurable view is available for online use that allows the setting of laser intensity, quality, minimum signal strength and extraction intensity.

With menus provided for the sensor, Point clouds and improvements to the laser probe qualification Camio 4.3 strengthens its multisensor capability and the flexibility for users to select the correct probe for their application.

Working with D-cubed, now part of Unigraphics, improvements to the simulation and collision detection capability have also been made.

Maximum user control to easily configure the speed of simulation is provided using the new simulation rate option.

This allows the user to modify the speed at any point during a simulation to give the user maximum visualisation with complete control.

Camio 4.3 also addresses the aerospace need for wing spar thickness measurement.

The creation of wing spar thickness programs for inspection has been greatly simplified with the inclusion of a new tool.

With this tool the user selects the measurement plane and the surfaces that they want to inspect.

The tool then generates one or two rows of points along a curve on the surface, which the user can then manipulate, before building the sequence of point-pairs on both sides of the rib.

A key feature of the development of the Camio Studio software suite has been the integration of other metrology equipment onto the platform.

This is further strengthened with the new release and support is now provided for the Krypton K-CMM, the Faro Arm SDK (USB), the Romer (FR) and support for known and unknown scanning on Zeiss CMM's equipped with the Vast head, increasing the versatility of Camio Studio for a wide variety of users and applications.