Aftermarkets

Aftermarket companies stay competitive when they are flexible in dealing with ever-changing product designs. Designers adding non-factory parts, accessories and upgrades to a motor vehicle, for example, often face issues with CAD drawings that are outdated or too detailed. Instead, tow bar manufacturers use a portable MMDx laser scanner on an MCAx articulated measuring arm to quickly digitize a vehicle’s rear bottom end. In their mechanical design software, they use the 3D scan surfaces to set the accurate spatial boundary conditions for designing a dedicated tow bar system. In the process, the point cloud software filters the point cloud, eliminates excess points and transforms the point cloud into a polygon surface mesh.

Also when stretching and armoring prestige vehicles for kings, presidents and sheiks, engineers scan the entire vehicle body after seats and trim have been removed. A K-Scan MMDx tracked by a K-Series Optical CMM is used to ergonomically capture vehicle interior and exterior in one go, avoiding many costly and time-consuming iterations later in the process. Aftermarkets rely on fast and accurate reverse engineering metrology solutions to quickly acquire critical engineering insight in the earliest stages of development.

Associated products

The ALTERA range of premium quality CMMs from Nikon Metrology provide higher productivity, better accuracy and improved flexibility.

ALTERA CMM Series

CAMIO’s interoperability across CMM platforms, sensor technology and manufacturing sites enables manufacturers to accelerate lead times and improve product quality while reducing costs.

CAMIO Multi-sensor CMM software

Focus Handheld is the data acquisition software for Nikon Metrology laser scanner integrations on optical CMMs and articulated arms CMMs.

Focus Handheld

Focus Inspection offers feature and full part-to-CAD inspection starting from point cloud data or meshes from CMM-based and handheld scanners.

Focus Inspection

Focus Scan offering fast, easy and accurate data capture for CMM laser scanning.

Focus Scan

K-Scan MMDx is a handheld walk-around laser scanner for portable metrology applications in a large work volume.

K-Scan MMDx

L100 is a next-generation CMM laser scanner that offers the best possible combination of speed, accuracy and ease-of-use.

L100

LC60Dx is a cost-effective digital line scanners featuring high scan speed, top accuracy and ability to scan nearly all surface materials.

LC60Dx

The MCAx 7-axis articulated arm is the perfect partner for the ModelMaker MMDx digital handheld laser scanners.

MCAx

The H120 makes no compromises in addressing the market needs by efficiently delivering the most detailed and accurate data in a fraction of the time of competing technologies.

ModelMaker H120

The ModelMaker MMDx is the top-level handheld laser scanner ideally suited for portable 3D inspection and reverse engineering applications.