(WENZEL Group: Wixom, MI) -- With the advent of 3-D technologies, requirements for quality assurance have increased. Previously, all major dimensions could be taken from a 2-D drawing for tactile measurement, but that is no longer the case. The curves of free-form surfaces are almost impossible to verify using traditional tactile measurement techniques, and 3-D drawings include little in the way of explicit dimensions.

WENZEL Group GmbH has developed advanced 3-D measuring technology to solve these measuring issues with its Shapetracer laser line scanner. The Shapetracer is a high-precision line scanner developed together with Pointmaster evaluation software from Wenzel Knotenpunkt. Shapetracer is an extremely compact scanner that can be connected to the Renishaw PH6M or PH10M probe head via the Renishaw Autojoint connection and, consequently, can be adapted to almost every coordinate measuring machine (CMM). In conjunction with the PH10M rotary swivel head, five-axis measurement is available.

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