Lightweight 3D Quality Assurance - why this is different and important?
QA has always been done in 3D - but not often like this! Imagine measuring a manufactured component to obtain a 'point cloud' of key locations in 3D space ... as many as you wish ... either manually, robotically, or with a 3D Scanner. After importing that point cloud, Lattice's Studio application will calculate 'normals' from each point to the surface and produce a color contour 'map' to your specification (e.g. 0.125mm green, 0.25mm yellow, 0.5mm red). This compares the highly compressed but extremely accurate 'as designed' model with the 'as built' component to chosen tolerances and visually ... and dramatically ... displays the results.

A graphical comparison of ‘as built�Eand ‘as designed�Ecomponents with dimensional differences highlighted with color contours

Key Benefits

With 3D, QA incorporates automatated visual comparison of 'as built' and 'as designed components ... and many other benefits:

• Fast, accurate, visual QA in 3D - easily and visually obtain QA results with direct reference to 'as designed' models.
• Multiple 3D approaches to 3D QA - Embedded 3D models in spreadsheets used to guide and collect manual measurements; Manually, robotically, or 3D Scannergenerated Point Clouds used to compare 'as built' and 'as designed' parts; Multi-version part comparison with automatic highlighting of differences between successive part generations.
• Easily and readily published QA results - QA results are stored in highly compressed XVL files available for 3D publishing by all Lattice applications.
• Visual Quality Check comparisons of parts, components, or products - XVL's ultra-compressed 3D and high accuracy enable rapid and accurate QA assessments.
• More effective QA communication - Compose and email interactive 3D-aware documents and achieve faster comprehension and better understanding via directly annotated 3D QA graphics.
• Improved customer relationships - Contract manufacturers can provide online or email feedback e.g. graphical QA measurements.
• Reduced localization - Communication with 3D - especially 3D animations - minimizes need for text translation/localization and facilitates parallel work in multiple locations.

Functionality

• Controlled accuracy.Controlled precision - either to be highly accurate to the original or specifically less accurate for training rather than manufacturing use.
• Annotation/hyperlinks. Add for any part/assembly to increase understanding.
• Measurement/dimensions. Measure dimensions ... calculate area and volume, center of mass, and more ... add dimensions to parts/assemblies.
• Easily integrated. Embed 3D for ease of use and to enhance user understanding.
• Full 3D view control. Pan, rotate, and zoom with high fidelity/resolution graphics ... and with full control for high fidelity display even when zoomed.
• Incorporate assembly structure and parts lists. Regroup, change name/ assembly, edit properties ... display, hide, color, and position components.
• Transparent display/cross-sections. Use transparent views, cross-sections to view and analyze procedures.
• Create/publish freeform 3D docs. Combine 3D XVL data, 2D images, structured data, text, and graphics in a single document.
• Automatic publishing via templates. Automatically generate interactive 3D web pages that include: 3D models, animations, 2D illustrations, parts lists, databases, assembly trees, and more.
• Batch processing. User-defined templates can be used within automated batch processing.
• Security. Control access to your 3D data, using NIST (AES) encryption and 3 levels of password protection.
• Unlimited model size. Convert even very large CAD assemblies into lightweight, inter-active 3D models .