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Form/co-ordinate, optical and vision instrumentation
News Release from: Metronor | Subject: Metronor Solo system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
Probe helps provide instant CAD models
TeZet and Metronor have developed a fast, inexpensive and easy way to directly capture the dimensions of large and complex tubes.
Solutions for documenting or verifying large and complex tubes - such as those found in the oil and chemical industries but also in aircraft or heavy vehicles - traditionally involve expensive large-volume laser scanners capturing millions of points and advanced software to sort, interpret and extract the required information TeZet and Metronor have developed a fast, inexpensive and easy way to directly capture the required data
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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By combining the simplicity and large-volume capability of the Metronor Solo system with easy to use software from TeZet, the user is able to simply walk around capturing the required dimensions of the tubes with the Metronor hand-held probe and automatically creating a CAD model of it in the TeZet software.
For example, to document a stretch of straight tube, the operator indicates three points at one end of the tube and then a couple of more points further down the tube to define the direction.
Bends, flanges, intersections and tube length are documented with the same ease.
The probe is lightweight, wireless and uses different length styli to reach tubes hidden from direct view.
Since only the required data is captured, the process is fast and efficient with immediate results without any need for post-processing huge amounts of data.
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