Wall Thickness Analysis

Perform volumetric analyses of a part’s thickness quickly and automatically—either using the ray method for parts with simple shapes or the sphere method for more organic shapes, including complex 3D printed parts. Colour-coded results help you localise areas with an insufficient or excessive wall thickness or gap width within the voxel, point cloud, mesh, or CAD data set.

This module:

• Automatically and quickly analyses the wall thickness. *
• Offers two different, dedicated methods for cubic and organic parts, respectively:
  • For parts with nearly parallel surfaces, the ray-based method yields the best results.
  • For organic, curved, or even branching surfaces, the sphere method is preferable, especially for complex 3D-printed shapes that are topology-optimised, generatively designed, or even lattice structures.
• Automatically and directly locates areas with insufficient or excessive wall thickness or gap width within voxel, point cloud, mesh, or CAD data sets.
• Allows the application of tolerances with various parameters, such as thickness (minimum, maximum, mean, and deviation).
• Reduces the number of false detections with a noise filter, which is especially helpful for automated inspections.

* Use in combination with Coordinate Measurement module recommended