Basic Edition
VGSTUDIO MAX
Your starting point is the basic edition. It offers innovative measuring instruments, visualization capabilities for visual inspections as well as reporting and presentation functions.
- Dark theme for working with gray value images
- Bright theme for measurement tasks
- 3D rotation options for better usability
- Protection of raw data against unwanted exchanges and manipulations
- Detection of simultaneous access to a project file
- Merging of all files, folders, and source data into a single file
- Quickly and easily switch between parameters for color-coding analysis results.
- For example, switch between visualizing a defect by its volume and its diameter with a click of the mouse.
Use active columns to quickly switch between parameters for color-coding your analysis results.
- For the simple measuring of distances, gray values, and angles
- Support macros and templates
- Support tolerances
- Unroll objects and then scroll into the object slice by slice.
- Level a bent surface, segment the leveled surface, and then transfer the segmentation back onto the bent surface.
- Combine consecutive slices into a single 2D view to have all information in these slices visible at a glance.
The cylindrical surface of a bottleneck has been unrolled to be viewed in a ‘flattened’ slice image.
- Save bookmarks, including 3D and 2D views, clippings, selected coordinate systems, and rendering settings.
- Export and import bookmarks, even within macros.
- Apply bookmarks to different data sets.
- Include views from bookmarks in reports.
- Work natively with voxel, point cloud, mesh, and CAD data.
- Benefit from less measurement uncertainty, since the fitting of geometry elements is optimized for each supported data type (voxel, CAD, mesh, and point cloud data).
- Repair and optimize corrupt CAD and mesh data during import.
- Convert CAD or mesh data to voxel, voxel to mesh, or point cloud to mesh.
- Create Regions of Interest (ROI) on CAD or mesh data and then use them for nominal/actual comparisons and wall thickness analyses.
- Create ROI templates on the CAD model – before the actual CT scan – and perform fast, automated geometry inspection tasks in combination with evaluation templates.
- Import textured meshes and colored point clouds for a more meaningful documentation and visual analysis of objects.
- Add, subtract, and average voxel data sets.
- Combine data sets that, e.g., have been scanned using different techniques into one meaningful data set.
- Create a “golden” surface from the mean value of several scans.
- Create high-quality renderings.
- The object exploder animates exploded views of segmented objects.
- In movies, see the exact position of the respective slice within the 3D model picture in picture.
Exploded view of a plastic toy
- Separate data sets into individual parts (Regions of Interest, or ROIs) that may consist of different components, materials, etc. using manual selection and drawing tools as well as semi-automated tools.
- Use subvoxel-accurate segmentation to further increase accuracy.
- Use CAD models as a starting contour for a (locally) adaptive surface determination and easily generate accurate surfaces, especially in multi-material scenarios.*
- Create ROIs from clipping objects.
- Restrict analyses and visualizations to individual ROIs.
- Use the drawing tool with upper and lower threshold values to easily separate even data sets with fluctuating gray values.
- Specifically analyze near-surface properties with the enveloping ROI.
* Requires the Coordinate Measurement Module.
- Export images (color-coded in 3D and 2D), histograms, and data tables in common file formats to work with them in other applications.
- Export all results in a standardized folder and file structure.
- Create comprehensive and completely customizable test reports hand-in-hand with Microsoft Excel (requires Microsoft Excel).
- See the exact position of the respective slice within the 3D model picture in picture when saving slice images.
- Generate reports on all analyses linked to an object.
- Define rules with which VGSTUDIO MAX generates images or annotations, e.g., to generate pictures of all defects exceeding a certain size.*
- Export results of measurements and analyses to third-party Quality Management or Statistical Process Control software via the widely used Q-DAS data exchange format.
* Requires the Coordinate Measurement Module.
- Automate the analysis of single data sets or a group of data sets with macros and templates.*
- Combine macros like building blocks in various contexts and constellations.
- Prepare and test jobs in VGSTUDIO MAX, execute them in VGSTUDIO MAX, or use them in VGinLINE for automated at-line or in-line inspection.
* May require add-on module(s).
- Save comprehensive inspection plans as evaluations to inspect parts semi- or fully automatically.
- Connect the results of diverse analyses in order to achieve conclusive pass/fail decisions.
- Use evaluations generated with VGSTUDIO MAX for serial inspection in VGinLINE.
- Data quality analysis according to the ASTM E 1695 standard to monitor the CT scan quality over time
- Text recognition to read out object identifiers such as cavity markers from CT scans
- Combine the results of successive analyses.*
- Combine, e.g., a wall thickness analysis with a porosity/inclusion analysis to classify a defect according to its size in relation to the local wall thickness.
* May require add-on module(s).