Dimensional deviations are a typical problem of all manufactured parts. Especially in injection molding, you need to measure warpage and shrinkage in the design and manufacturing phase. VGSTUDIO MAX gives you all the functionality of a physical coordinate measurement machine and more. Geometric deviations of your scanned cast part from its respective CAD data set become visible at a glance when you perform a nominal/ actual comparison. 

The multi-material surface determination function makes geometric dimensioning and tolerancing of multi-material objects, such as the position of metal pins of a connector relative to the plastic housing, a breeze. 

By directly importing so-called Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI), which is generated by many current CAD systems, VGSTUDIO MAX saves you a considerable amount of time when you prepare measurement plans. 

And to centrally store your analysis results in quality management or statistical process control software, VGSTUDIO MAX allows you to export global results of analyses (nominal/actual comparison, wall thickness analysis, porosity/inclusion analysis, and fiber composite material analysis) in the widely used Q-DAS data exchange format.

Injection-molded parts shrink and warp due to the material and heat distribution and cool-down behavior. VGSTUDIO MAX analyzes the deviation in order to export compensated surfaces for the mold maker. By adding the compensated warpage deviation to the shrinkage information, the output can be used to update and optimize the mold with minimal tool rework. Quality control includes draft angle and curvature analyses. It can also reconstruct surface patches by shrink wrapping it to the scan or the mold. 

You can use the Manufacturing Geometry Correction Module in combination with the golden surface function to correct a mold with multiple identical nests. The golden surface function creates an average surface of the parts coming from the different nests, which is the best basis for correcting the nest geometries.

Injection molding of fiber-reinforced compounds requires the control of the fiber orientations that determine the mechanical properties of the component. Fiber orientations and fiber volume fractions can be derived from CT scans and mapped onto existing volume meshes in the PATRAN ® or NASTRAN ® format—either for direct use in FEM simulations or for validation of fiber distributions from injection molding simulations. A dedicated format for export into Digimat® is available.

Mass-produced components, as they occur in injection molding, lead to repetitive analysis tasks. VGSTUDIO MAX allows you to save valuable time by automating them. 

To efficiently analyze multiple cavities of a connector, you can copy measurement plans and analyses (e.g., a defect analysis, nominal/actual comparison, or wall thickness analysis) from one cavity to a periodic cavity pattern in one go. For the efficient inspection of multiple identical parts, you can—in one go—apply macros to multiple identical objects in one scene. Multiple identical parts in separate (.vgl) files can also be efficiently analyzed using batch processing.

It is becoming increasingly important for parts to be inspected as comprehensively and non-destructively as possible directly where they are produced. With VGinLINE, you can semi- or a fully automate the quality control process of plastic parts (including the automatic recognition of tool cavity markers). 

VGinLINE is a ready-to-use framework that relies on the advanced capabilities of VGSTUDIO MAX. It can cover the whole process from the reconstruction of the CT data to inspection, reporting, and manual review. Its modular architecture makes it easy to tailor it to specific scenarios. You can combine analyses and any other required data, such as report configurations or reference models, into a single inspection plan, which you can edit in VGSTUDIO MAX and execute in VGinLINE.