The VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator (Patented & Other Patents Pending) is a fully-digital drop-in replacement for traditional optical comparators. It works directly with your part’s CAD data and doesn’t require and overlays.
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VisionGauge
500 Series
The system is extremely easy to use, and thanks to its advanced, patented CAD Auto-Align™ and CAD Auto-Pass/Fail™ tools, operators can compare parts to their CAD data completely automatically, directly on the shop floor.
VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparators eliminate operator error and can automatically collect complete electronic documentation including measurements, statistics, Pass/Fail results, a high-resolution image of the part with its CAD overlay, etc.
The VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator can also be integrated into an automated work cell and controlled via Ethernet or RS-232 communications.
Product Details
Features & Benefits
- Produce a very high contrast image with very sharp edge profiles so that there is no problem viewing it in full daylight
- Are much more accurate
- Allow the user to be much more productive and get more work done with a single machine
- Include our patented CAD Auto-Align™ and CAD Auto-Pass/Fail™
- Can compute and display the part’s deviation from nominal and compare it to bi-directional tolerances
- Work directly with the CAD data so that no overlays / templates / Mylars™ are required
- Can be used to collect images (either with or without the CAD data overlay and with or without annotations), measurements and data.
- Can also carry out fully automated measurements (like a video CMM)
- Can automatically send measurements, statistics and data to Excel™ or other external applications
- Have a smaller footprint and use less floor space
- Can be moved much more easily and without requiring re-calibration (i.e. “rolling cart” configuration is standard)
- Have a much greater optical depth of field, i.e. (“everything is in focus all at once”)
- Have a longer optical working distance (i.e. more clearance between the part and the lens)
- Allow you to compare a part to its CAD data beyond the optical field-of-view! (because the CAD data tracks the part and follows the stage motion)
- Have LED illumination for very stable illumination over a 10 year life. No more bulbs to change!
Technical Data
- Standard Optical Magnifications (equivalent to traditional comparators)
- 5X, 10X, 20X, 50X and 100X
- Image view area
- 33.5” wide x 25.75” high (= 42” diagonal)
- Software Interface
- Intuitive, Windows-based graphical user interface (i.e. “point & click”)
- Motorized X-, Y- & Z-axes
- Yes
- X-, Y- & Z-stage movement
- High-accuracy crossed-roller movement
- X-axis travel
- 12"
- Y-axis travel
- 6"/ 12"
- X- & Y-axis encoder resolution
- 0.25 micron
- Z stage travel
- 4"
- Auto-Focus
- Yes
- Part fixturing configuration
- Dual standard dovetail grooves/ Threaded mounting hole pattern
- Encoded Z-axis
- Optional
- LASER module (for Z-axis measurement)
- Optional
- High-accuracy rotary axes
- Optional
- Fully programmable 3D motion
- Yes
- Camera
- High-resolution, digital (9 MegaPixel)
- Illumination
- • LED-based (for very stable illumination conditions, with a very long life) • Programmable & computer-controlled (for repeatable illumination conditions) • Both reflected (i.e. front) & transmitted (i.e. back) illumination modules are available
- Lens
- Very low distortion telecentric, with long working distance & extended depth-of-field
- Real-time mathematical image processing, enhancement and correction
- Yes
- Patented CAD Auto-Align™ tool
- Yes, with user-specified bi-directional tolerances
- Patented CAD Auto- Pass/Fail tool
- Yes, with user-specified bi-directional tolerances
- Extended set of high-accuracy measurement tools
- Yes, with sub-pixel-accurate edge detection
- Image annotation tools
- Yes
- Automatic electronic documentation
- Yes
- Built-in SPC capabilities, with automatic numerical charts & PASS/FAIL graphs, etc...
- Yes
- Automatic data export to ExcelTM and other applications
- Yes
- Compare a part to its CAD data across the entire stage travel
- Yes
- Quick CAD data and settings change over & recall
- Yes (“1-button recall”)
- Supervisor/operator password protection
- Yes
- Operating System
- WindowsTM 7
- Built-in “F1 Help”
- Yes
- Fan & filter unit on main cabinet
- Yes (to create a positive pressure and keep dust out)
- Power requirements
- 110V, 15 Amp (single cord)
- Operating temperature
- 10 °C - 30 °C
- Support (by phone, fax & email)
- Included for a full year
- Warranty
- 1 year (complete)
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