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Portable arm technology measures large structures
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Europac Metrology product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Mar 26, 2004
A highly versatile, yet simple and low cost method of measuring large structures or multiple components within a floor area of 6m x 4m uses portable arm measuring technology.
A highly versatile, yet simple and low cost method of measuring large structures or multiple components within a floor area of six metres by four metres utilising portable arm measuring technology, is now available from EuroPac Metrology of Crewe.
The patent pending GridLOK system is very simple in its configuration but uses complex mathematical algorithms to determine the relative point positions to a datum on the object to be measured.
It avoids the need to use a highly expensive co-ordinate measuring machine to determine three-dimensional data or geometry and can provide similar levels of accuracy within +/- 50 microns.
GridLOK is based on a series of small conical steel seats that are permanently set flush into a concrete floor or master steel plate, for instance, and their relative co-ordinate datum positions are determined using a laser tracker.
The software, which includes patented and approved algorithms, relates to the points taken by the portable measuring arm and computes the measured points relative to the captured grid reference of the datums.
There is no need for input of any additional X, Y or Z data and two portable arms can even be utilised at the same time within the grid by separate operators to independently determine different points, for instance, on both sides of a car body or large die.
In addition, the flexibility of the system also enables the measuring arm to be moved around the measuring volume of the system and simply re-datumed from the nearest cones set in the floor which already have a known relationship to the previous location.
Central to the GridLOK system is the EuroPac Metrology 3000i portable measuring arm range which can be specified from what is believed to be the most accurate of its type providing a measuring capability of +/-2 microns over its 1.8 metre reach, to the largest arm currently being produced which has a measuring envelope of 4.6 metres and accuracy of +/-15 microns.
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