Focus 10 presents a new user interface featuring a Windows-7 style ribbon toolbar, where users will feel at ease immediately.
Focus 10 offers tightly integrated data acquisition – via CMM or handheld scanners – and intelligent processing and reporting. Direct access to workflow selection, customization and automation facilitate the setup and execution of processing jobs. Focus 10 drives seamlessly latest-generation Nikon Metrology CMM and handheld laser scanners, and supports many CMM and articulated arm brands.

Digitizing components up-front and running inspection on the digital copies of the samples, streamlines metrology operations and embeds them into the digital CAD-centric development process. As a Digital Inspection Process provides more profound metrology insight, it is essential to improve and accelerate styling, tooling, prototyping and series production.

The user interface is workflow-oriented to minimize the number of clicks required to move from point clouds to graphic geometry reports. Focus allows engineers to tune the process exactly as desired, whereas operators easily manage and run inspection jobs. During measurement, they monitor the inspection progress and outcome using real time graphic and numerical result displays.

Focus Inspection offers the possibility to read product manufacturing information (PMI) from the CAD file. Using this information, features are retrieved automatically from the point cloud and evaluated to their tolerances. This eliminates the error prone and time consuming entry of dimensions and tolerances. The creation of the inspection program by teach in does not require any programming skills.

Part-to-CAD inspection compares the acquired point cloud with nominal CAD data, resulting in crystal-clear geometric deviation displays. Freeform surface inspection is ideal for studying material springback and shrinkage phenomena and to verify that the shape of the part is within geometry specifications. Focus extracts geometric features highly accurate, thanks to the thousands of measurement points captured by the scanner. The multitude of points allows the software to apply very accurate fitting to determine the exact position and orientation of a wide range of features.

Freeform surfaces:

• Full part-to-CAD inspection
• 2D and 3D sections
• Wall thickness, edge analysis, etc.
• Customizable flyouts for clear interpretation

Geometric features:

• Automatic and semi-automatic feature detection
• 2D features: surface point, hole, slot, plane, etc.
• 3D basic features: cylinder, sphere, etc.
• 3D advanced features: T-Stud, diamond pin, fir tree, etc.Sectional inspection of flush & gap between assemblies (body, door, trunk, etc.)
• Definition of user-specific flush & gap gauges
• Combi hem: creation of virtual edge points

Correct decision making is based on the fast and unambiguous interpretation of measurement results. Because 3D graphical deviation reports provide results in an easy understandable format, Focus Inspection facilitates the communication between operators, managers and suppliers.

• Customizable Microsoft Excel template based reporting
• Statistical Process Control (SPC): Q-Stat, QC-Calc, DMIS, txt
• Data export to a variety of file formats to flexibly share results with other users and applications
• Free Focus Viewer software to create user-specific 3D analysis reports

Focus Inspection can easily be set up to execute alignment, filtering and meshing as well as analysis and reporting automatically. Focus is renowned for the fact that setting up the inspection program does not require any programming skills or command knowledge whatsoever. Focus Inspection incorporates standard automation functionality that supports non-stop execution of repetitive inspection tasks. This allows multiple scan files or even the complete inspection cycle of a series of specimens to be processed automatically.

• Automation of CMM-based scan process and inspection analysis
• Macro-based recording of actions:
• No specific programming skills required

Focus Inspection reports include part-to-CAD comparison plots with color-coded areas marking local geometry deviation. Quickly gaining relevant insight is critical in identifying the source of a problem and keep production quality up to level. The license-free Focus Viewer allows graphic reports to be shared easily with colleagues and suppliers, who use it for interactive analysis purposes.

Digital copies of reference parts are used to build an assembly with CAD models or other point cloud data. This approach saves material by avoiding expensive templates, fixtures and scrap. It also saves time by avoiding lengthy physical assembly builds, resulting in faster decision-making and shorter pre-production processes.

Critical in obtaining a perfect assembly is measuring whether feature geometries meet the specified tolerances. Focus Inspection supports the internationally accepted ASME Y14.5 GD&T standard, illustrating the value it brings as a true metrology solution.

• Imports GD&T data from nominal CAD
• Complete set of certified GD&T functions to define tolerances on form, orientation and location
• PTB certified feature calculation algorithms