You’ve likely seen a comparator strip that includes samples of common machined surfaces. We have similar examples of machining operations in this library as well. This dataset is the turned surface of a cylindrical shaft. Remove the cylindrical form (Analysis Settings > Geometry/Form > Cylinder) to view the underlying surface texture. Click the Profile toolbar … Read more
You’ve likely seen a comparator strip that includes samples of common machined surfaces. We have similar examples of common machining operations in this library as well. This dataset is the outside diameter shaft with surface produced by grinding. Remove the cylindrical form (Analysis Settings > Geometry/Form > Cylinder) to reveal the underlying surface texture. Double-click … Read more
This is a “Lightning” connector on an Apple iPhone charging cable. The data includes an image overlay, which you can toggle on and off using the Camera toolbar icon. Use the Crop tool’s Angle feature (Analysis > Data Crop Tool) to rotate the data, then zoom in on the connection pads and use the cross-section … Read more
This is the leather surface of a wallet. It’s a nice example of longer wavelength surface texture—something akin to the orange peel on a painted surface. It’s also a good example of how a robust short filter can be your best friend. This data includes some spiky noise that is much “taller” than the surface … Read more
This dataset shows a dimple on a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball. The logo printing is just barely visible in the dimple. We can highlight the printing a little more by applying a 4th-order polynomial fit (Analysis Settings > Geometry/Form > Polynomial, with “4” as the x-order and y-order values). Filtering will bring out the … Read more
This dataset is high on our “coolness scale.” It’s nearly 250 mm in width—quite a bit larger than our typical surface roughness measurements. It does an excellent job of showing how longer-wavelength waviness and form can be analyzed. There are some small areas of bad data which can be repaired with the OmniSurf3D Surface Editor … Read more