IQ-FormFit^TM

Applications

IQ-FormFit is a powerful easy-to-use best-fit analysis package that compares measurement points to your CAD model to evaluate form errors of manufactured parts having complex geometric shapes. It provides fast 2D and 3D best-fit capabilities to help you accurately align your parts with CAD models. It has a friendly graphics user interface and a powerful graphics engine that you can use to manipulate and visualize your CAD model, measurement data, and analysis results. Best of all, it makes your form tolerance analysis much easier and faster, and it helps you get the most accurate results.

Benefits

Applications

Reduces Time and Costs for Inspection

• Best-fit technology eliminates the needs of expensive fixtures and reduces setup time for inspecting parts having complex geometries;
• Best-fit technology eliminates the needs of high precision hard gauges and reduces inspection costs;
• Fast computational algorithms improve the efficiency of inspection cycle.

Improves Inspection Accuracy

• Best-fit eliminates the influence of mis-alignment and cosine error in form error evaluation and helps you achieve the best possible inspection accuracy.

• Capable of analyzing simple parts with prismatic geometry as well as sophisticated parts having complex composite geometry.

Provides Powerful Graphics Interface

• Powerful graphics engine and user interface enable you to manipulate your CAD model and measurement data, and help you visualize your analysis results.

Applications

• Importing CAD data file (IGES,DXF,VDA,CATIA,Pro/E)
• Reading inspection data (ASCII, Customer format)
• Exporting analysis results including transformation matrix and deviation information
• Printing text and graphics reports

Supported Geometric Entities

• Curves: line, circle, arc, ellipse, parabola, NURBS curve and spline curve
• Surfaces: trimmed surface of plane, sphere, cylinder, cone, NURBS surface, surface of revolution, etc.

• Label editing, color manipulation, grouping, show/hide of individual entity or group of entities
• Point cloud editing including sampling, setting active, circle-selecting, deleting and merging
• Multiple deviation display modes, detailed list view of deviation information, and magnification of deviation vectors
• Multiple curve and surface display modes, curve and surface normal vector display and flip

• Automatic probe radius compensation
• User control of best-fit accuracy
• User control of degree of freedom in best-fit
• Fast 2D best-fit of data points to curves
• Fast 3D best-fit of data points to surfaces
• Statistics Informtion for deviations

Ready for Integration into Process

• Supports batch mode execution and options
• Supports OLE interface for real time data transmission from measuring devices

Applications

Molds, Tool & Die, Automotive Components, Aerospace Parts, Electronics Assembly, Medical Parts, and Other Precision Engineered Workpieces

IBM PC compatibles running Windows 95/98/ME, or Windows NT/2000/XP

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