Portable Optical Coordinate Machine for sale from Maxitec

Portable Optical Coordinate Machine

Supplier: Maxitec

Optical Planar Standalone

InspectVision’s Planar Optical Probe has now been adapted into a separate stand-alone product for the manufacturing industry.

Known as Opti-Probe, this portable optical coordinate measuring machine is distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Maxitec and is ideal for high accuracy parts inspection and reverse engineering.

This new vision system is expected to supersede conventional CMM Arms – one of the most common types of measuring machines –in capability and cost.

The lightweight and portable Opti-Probe CMM uses a handheld probe in
conjunction with a very high-resolution camera. The probe has markers which are imaged and located by the camera.

Any image taken is then downloaded to a computer which ultimately calculates the 3-D location of the device, allowing measurements to be taken.

Compared to traditional CMM Arms, this arrangement has advantages including no moving parts, no bulkiness, nothing that can really break or damage, it is fully recalibrated on-site with very little training, and it can also be used to measure large (3x2x5m) or small volumes.

Stand-alone Opti-Probe is suitable for a large variety of components and materials such as pressing, forgings, and mouldings; materials that can be measured include metals, polymers, wood, glass, rubber and various others.

Large fabrications can be inspected because extra volume capacity enables the capture of the exact geometry of large items. No dedicated inspection area is required.

This unit is ideal for the reverse engineering of 3D parts, plus the geometry of tools, dies, robots and jigs can be certified online using the optic probe.

Opti-Probe is accurate up to 30µm, is very cost-effective, has a temperature compensated metallic core, includes a wide range of measuring volumes from 1m3 to 50m3, is robust and flexible and can be used in a factory environment.

This is a hand-held probe with optical markers that is lightweight and
ergonomically designed. Markers are tracked by camera and location of the probe calculated.

Measurements are made simply by touching the object with the probe and pressing the trigger. An LCD screen shows the position of the probe. The probe can even be used as a mouse.

WIFI operation is possible without cables, it uses a very high-resolution camera, is dustproof and has optional user configurable probe tips.

Options include a remote monitor screen on the probe, an upgrade to PowerInspect 3D software license, a heavy-duty carbon fibre tripod with camera mounting, additional battery pack, stylised special applications, a heavy duty travel case as well as various training courses.

PowerInspect Lite software compares against all mainstream CAD formats, allows rapid alignment even for complex freeform shapes, allows inspection of user defined sections and gives the ability to inspect along edge parts.

With full geometric inspection capabilities, this software also provides the
automatic creation of inspection features from CAD nominals, geometric
dimensioning and tolerancing; point, wireframe and surface export for measured entities and CAD manipulation.

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