User Interface

• Modern interface based on the latest standards, with open GL technology for fast and perfect shading.
• Streamlined user interface with improved workflow and context sensitive menus.
• All parameters can be customized to allow an efficient and personalized use.
• "Windows" like look and feel based upon the stable Linux platform.

Measurement

• Very fast image grabbing and efficient data evaluation support very efficient scanning.
• Verification of calibration and stability of the measuring setup during measurement based on the capturing of markers in the measuring area for each measurement.
• Verification of fringe projection integrity.
• Digitizing of very bright and very dark areas in one measurement.
• Online capturing of the actual sensor position to visualize the actual measuring area.
• Online capturing of the stability of the actual measuring setup to allow accurate digitizing in combination with a robot.
• Fast and efficient image capturing despite multiple tests to secure the integrity of the digitized data
• Robust data evaluation based on the new fringe projection methode.

Polygon Mesh Generation

• Automated alignment of all single measurements.
• Optimized removing of overlapping data based on viewing angle and digitizing conditions to create high quality meshes.
• Curvature based thinning of the data to minimize the amount of data without loosing accuracy and details.

Polygon Mesh Treatment

• Enhanced editing functionality on mesh data.
• Optimized hole filling including curvature based algorithms.
• Data reduction with fast curvature based thinning.

Sections

• Sections can easily be defined in multiple ways to support traditional surfacing or quality control applications.
• Editing functions to further improve the section quality.
• Import and export of the section data to easily cooperate with other software packages.

Feature Lines

• Easy to use and powerful feature line generation, based e.g. on tape lines and edges.
• Primitive definitions based on the ATOS scan data.
• Accurate and reliable detection of different hole shapes.

Primitives

• Primitives, such as spheres, cylinders, cones, planes, lines, slotted holes and rectangular holes can be generated from mesh data by a best fit routine or by individual data points
• Primitives can be tesselated to have them as stl data mesh
• Primitives can be exported in Iges format to easily cooperate with other software packages

Registration

• Pre-registration and best-fit registration (complete data or selected areas) of measurement data to reference data.
• Primitive based (RPS) alignment to CAD data.

Feature Lines

• Easy to use and powerful feature line generation, based e.g. on tape lines and edges.
• Primitive definitions based on the ATOS scan data.
• Accurate and reliable detection of different hole shapes.

Inspection

• Intersection and projection of primitives
• CAD data interface for: Catia4, IGES, VDA, STEP, optional also for UG and ProE
• Calculation and visualization of the deviation from measured data (mesh, sections or feature lines) to reference data, with predefined or customized color maps
• Inspect Modul certified by PTB
• Handling of tolerances, including the calculation and the visualization of deviation values
• Generation of measurement- and Quality Control data and reports as supplied by CMM
• Export of the measured data and the tolerances in tabular forms
• Generation of labels with predefined or customized visualization
• Automatic quality control (CAI) including automated digitizing, registration, calculation of the deviations, data evaluation and report generation using macro functionality

Automation

• Macro Functions can be recorded, edited and launched to speed up repetitive steps in the digitizing process.
• Ready to integrate ATOS into a process e.g. inline digitizing or an automated digitizing based on robot handeling.
• Remote control unit to allow an efficient one man digitizing of big objects.

Coloured Meshes

• Import, visualization und export of ASCII and STL data
• Projection of color information from images onto triangular data
• Import and export of color STLs in multiple formats

Hardware

• OpenGL based rendering for perfect display of the high quality scan data.
• Dual CPU support to reduce the calculation time and maximize the throughput.
• Two live images are displayed during digitizing, making digitizing easy and give full control over the system.
• Easy transportable ATOS II systems, based on a powerful notebook PC (with FireWire).

Help

• Automated parameter suggestions for all functions that affect data quality.
• Online help included.
• Step by step tutorial delivered with the system.
• Wizards which sets the parameter to produce high quality data also from unexperienced operators.