Textured plastics are often controlled using visual/tactile comparison to texture card samples like this one: This texture card is based on the VDI 3400 texture reference, which is used for controlling the surface finish of injection molds and the plastic parts they generate for applications in automotive, aircraft, electronics, and consumer goods. Other, similar finish … Read more
The surface of this JOOLA Perseus MOD TA-15 pickleball paddle is intended to add friction or “grip” to the ball: If we zoom in on a subregion, we can see the details of the “peaky” texture: This texture looks very much like this woven rain jacket fabric that’s also in our Surface Library. In fact, … Read more
This 50X optical profiler image of coated business card stock shows the individual coated paper fibers. Measured via: Sensofar S neox 090 3D optical profiler, 50X Direct Interferometry lens Data source: Adam M. Platteis and Sensofar
This dataset shows the bottom surface of an FDM 3D printed part. The surface was formed against a “textured” build plate. The stitched dataset consists of 5×5 individual measurements. Measured via: Zygo NexView NX2, 5.5X objective, 0.5X zoom, CSI mode Data source: Brian Renegar – Surface and Interface Metrology Group – NIST
This dataset includes a wear region on a planar surface. The Wear Analysis tool in OmniSurf3D lets you precisely define the wear region and reference geometry to calculate wear depth and wear volume. In this video we use the Wear Analysis tool to calculate the depth and volume of the wear scan in this dataset. … Read more
This dataset includes a wear region on a spherical surface. Typically it would be challenging to measure the depth of this wear scar, because it blends into the overall curvature of the sphere. But the Wear Analysis tool in OmniSurf3D lets you precisely define reference and wear regions, to calculate key parameters such as wear … Read more