New PC-DMIS Vision 2009 with MultiCapture

Revolutionary measurement routine improves vision system productivity by 35% or more.

North Kingstown, RI – Wilcox Associates Inc., a Hexagon Metrology company, today introduced PC-DMIS Vision 2009 with a new patented MultiCapture feature that typically improves measurement productivity by 35%, or more when the part is densely populated with features requiring inspection. PC-DMIS Vision 2009 is a CAD-based, 3D vision measurement program for manual and DCC vision measurement systems, multi-sensor measurement systems and CMMs equipped with vision probes. The new version is available at no charge to users with a maintenance agreement. It also available as a retrofit for most popular vision and multisensor measurement systems.

In addition to the new MultiCapture feature, PC-DMIS Vision 2009 also includes RGB pixel adjustment for improved edge detection with color cameras, support for multi-core processors, and numerous improvements that enhance the software’s stability and lay the foundation for other advanced features in future releases. A demo showing a measurement routine with and without MultiCapture can be found at: www.pcdmis.com/multicapture .

New Patented MultiCapture Feature

MultiCapture is a revolutionary vision measurement technology that automatically finds multiple features that fit within the same field of view and captures their measurement data simultaneously. Upon completing the measurements in a particular field of view, MultiCapture drives the camera to the next cluster of features and measures them in the same way. This sequence continues until the inspection program is complete. MultiCapture also works with manual vision systems by prompting the user to move the viewfinder to successive zones of densely populated features.

Within PC-DMIS Vision 2009, MultiCapture is set as the default. No additional programming is needed to take advantage of productivity improvements that have been much as 70% for parts with complex, densely populated features, such as medical, electronic or other complicated precision parts with closely packed features including micro hole dies, sieves, filters, fiber optics and inkjet nozzles.

RGB Adjustments Improve Measurement Consistency, Edge Detection.

PC-DMIS Vision 2009 also includes another significant feature allowing the programmers to adjust RGB (Red/Green/Blue) sensitivity for features captured with color cameras to heighten contrast and dramatically improve edge detection. This capability improves measurement consistency in general and is particularly useful when edges on colored parts are ambiguous or undetectable using gray scale manipulation and lighting modifications.

PC-DMIS EMS (Enterprise Metrology Solutions)

PC-DMIS Vision 2009 uses the same software platform as other PC-DMIS EMS (Enterprise Metrology Solutions) software for CMMs, portable measurement systems, on-machine metrology solutions and other types of measurement equipment. Each of these EMS products relies on imported or directly accessed CAD models as the basis for fast and accurate measurement system programming.

This approach makes it easy to exchange programs or parts of programs, as well as results between different types of measurements systems and to compare the results. In addition, users of one type of PC-DMIS product can typically learn the basics of PC-DMIS on another type of measurement device in a few hours. This makes it easy to cross-train users on a wide range of measurement devices at minimal cost.