A revolutionary innovation for optical profilometers which substantially improves its usability and simplifies the task of setting tolerances when creating a recipe, as well as deciding which are the key parameters to control the production line by comparing multiple sets of data which also can be compared through a graphical representation. Specially conceived for non-expert users who need traceable production control.

As multiple cores can now be fully utilized, a larger number of actions can be implemented in parallel, thus resulting in higher overall system performance. Easy to handle larger files, and/or larger multiple data sets.

Once the analysis is done, the results and the standard deviations for each parameter are shown on a table. If any tolerances are applied, these will be highlighted in the summary section.

The ISO 25178: Geometric Product Specifications (GPS) – Surface texture: areal standard is an International Organization for Standardization collection of international standards relating to the analysis of 3D areal surface texture. It is the first international standard taking into account the specification and measurement of 3D surface texture, and in particular defines 3D surface texture parameters and the associated specification operators.

Sensofar develops a Plugin to analyze surface texture (a.k.a. roughness) in accordance with the corresponding parameters defined by the ISO 25178.

Surface parameters are calculated according to ISO 25178:

   Height parameters (height values along the Z axis)
   Spatial parameters (spatial periodicity of the data)
   Hybrid parameters: (spatial shape of the data)
   Functional parameters (parameters calculated from the material ratio curve, surface into motifs, valleys and hills)

Several options for managing the output files from a successful analysis are provided to get a complete report showing pass or fail results.