VGMETROLOGY

Define and apply visualization and workspace settings as "Views" for individual objects, enhancing project navigation and report generation. Easily transfer these views between objects and incorporate them into evaluation templates for streamlined automation.

Enhance your reports with interactive 3D color overlays for geometric tolerances, facilitating a better understanding of numerical results.

Select multiple CAD faces effortlessly using intuitive tools like rectangle, ellipse, and lasso in the 3D view. This feature simplifies working with complex components, aligning with object and fit point selections.

Switch fit point tables to cylindrical or spherical coordinates for rotational symmetric parts, enhancing import, export, and editing processes.

Ensure regular elements only sample fit points in desired areas with the "Restrict to original fit points" option. This avoids sampling in unwanted regions, maintaining accuracy in measurements.

Streamline data processing with the new .xvgi file format, eliminating the need for manual data import. Utilize our Python reference implementation to automate VG software use, even without existing .vgl files.

Focus on actual deviations with auto-scaled color mapping that excludes outliers. This ensures color overlays provide valuable part evaluations without distortion.

The selected color overlay and "Show components only" checkbox are now stored and applied to all automated image generation functions including bookmarks, animations, and object-specific views. This enhances your options for reports and presentations. 

Run VG software flexibly on virtual machines using floating licenses, expanding infrastructure options.

Learn how to speed up your workflows with the "Automation" tool in VGSTUDIO MAX or VGMETROLOGY. Automate part of your workflow by creating macros for single workflow steps, or create an inspection plan, a so-called job, and automate your entire inspection. The job file includes all necessary data for the inspection and can easily be shared with colleagues and customers for its use with other at-line- or in-line CT systems. 

This innovative tool lets you evaluate deviations using percentual values, widening your analysis scope. Benefit from comprehensive insights into your component's stability over a full range of values, including absolute wall thickness, absolute deviation, and percentual deviation from the nominal value. Effortlessly analyze percentual deviations with features like color overlay, histogram, tolerances, and individual annotations.

Q-DAS export for relative wall thickness results
Elevate your data analytics with seamless exporting of toleranced relative wall thickness results in Q-DAS format. Enjoy superior compatibility and integration with the Q-DAS product family. 

Easier navigation of PDF reports
PDF reports now also include a table of contents with direct links to the related section of the report. Enhance your user experience and swiftly peruse your reports with this clever addition.

Dive into a whole new interactive experience of creating regions of interest (ROIs) with the "Rectangle 3D" and "Ellipse 3D" ROI creation functions. Straightforward to use, these features let you use simple primitives (rectangle and ellipse) in the 3D view to create volumetric ROIs. Similar to polyline 3D, but without polyline complexity, just click and drag to get your ROI done. 

When you move or rotate a region of interest (ROI) or copy it from another object, its mask may not be aligned with the voxel grid of the parent volume. This useful feature allows you to see this status at a glance in the Scene Tree or in the object properties. One click is enough to get the ROI aligned, an action that can also be recorded for automated scenarios.

Peer-to-peer collaboration is now easier than ever! Use the new link in the title bar to hop over to the VG Community on Nexus. Share your wins, get advice, and stay up to date on the latest and greatest in your products.

Introducing a game-changer in deviation analysis: Use your nominal part to tolerance wall thickness deviations on CT scans of the actual part. No more guessing games about wall thickness, no more relying on absolute values of the wall thickness sphere calculation.

Visualize, tolerance, report, and evaluate the real deviations between your nominal part and the actual scan. Leverage our unique adaptive transformation technology to ensure that calculated deviations correspond accurately to surface points on both your nominal and actual parts.

Our new intuitive ribbon tab puts all essential editing tools at your fingertips. You can adjust visibility, make selections, add, fit, remove, or recreate fit points – all from a single hub! No need to search through property dialogs or guess the location of desired fit points. Simply select a geometry element and the tab appears, streamlining your measurement plan adjustments.

Selecting objects is more intuitive than ever: Just pick your tool of choice — rectangle, ellipse, or lasso – and directly draw in the 3D window. As soon as an object’s center of mass is highlighted, the object will be selected in the Scene Tree. Add or remove objects directly in the 3D window – WYSIWYG. 

You can now create ROIs with a defined thickness from the surface of ideal geometries, making it simpler to streamline ROI creation for various analyses, including P 203. Choose from various expansion modes: in all directions, perpendicular to the surface, or exclusively to the inner or outer side based on the surface orientation.

Enable or disable ROI rendering for numerous objects simultaneously! Enjoy better automation scenarios, with the toggle macro step now distinctively separated into two clear steps: "Enable ROI rendering" and "Disable ROI rendering". This ensures better reproducibility of macro jobs for a more streamlined user experience. 

Say goodbye to those pesky workarounds! You’re now able to create an intersection line with the desired size directly between the shell of a cylinder and a parallel plane.

This dynamic feature utilizes the color bar settings configured directly in the analyses, offering an enriched context to interpret results in your reports. Elevate your reporting experience and data interpretation capacity with this unique update.

Color-code table cells in reports according to their tolerance state
You can now opt to color-code individual cells based on their tolerance status. This instant visual representation not only enhances the meaning of your result tables but also allows for quicker identification of specific indicators that caused a part to be out of tolerance. A more meaningful, intuitive understanding of your data is just a color away!

Hide info field names in reports
 You can choose to hide the title of any info field in your report. This feature not only allows for seamless integration with any personalized text but also contributes to creating more succinct report pages. Enjoy more control and design freedom with our refined reporting settings.

Invalidation of bookmark images on analysis changes
Bookmark images are now tagged with an "out-of-sync" status if analysis results change. For automated scenarios, all "out-of-sync" images undergo an automatic update before saving, ensuring that the bookmark images reflect the current state of your project accurately. Experience improved visibility and control over your data with this dynamic update.

Rename objects using metainformation
 You can now rename objects using one of their metainformation fields. Ideal for use in macros, this function can transfer text read from an object via OCR to its name in automation scenarios. Experience elevated control and efficiency in your data management with this latest feature enhancement.

Enhance your efficiency with our latest multi-threaded mesh simplification feature! Whether you're converting a volume to a mesh or preparing 3D data for reporting, this new implementation drastically reduces the number of triangles in a surface mesh and significantly accelerates calculation times. Step into a smoother, faster computation experience with this innovative update.

The well-known feature in VGSTUDIO MAX is now also available for users of VGMETROLOGY.

This upgrade radically reduces the time spent browsing for macros in your file system. Enjoy a smoother, more efficient workflow and let us handle the heavy lifting. Work smarter, not harder!

You can now measure linear sizes that require the use of rank order modifiers (for example, for the calculation of an average size) or the use of the ACS (arbitrary cross-section) modifier for the calculation of size measurements in any cross section.

Measurement tasks according to ISO 14405-1 that require the use of these modifiers can now be easily performed by choosing the appropriate modifier symbols in the "Linear sizes" dialog.

When you use linear size modifiers such as LP (local two-point size) or ACS (arbitrary cross-section), many sizes will be calculated at a time. While you will usually tolerance only a single size value (e.g., the maximum, SX, or the minimum, SN), much more information about the measurement itself is now available: A new tab in the "Linear sizes" dialog will show you a histogram of all calculated sizes as well as a number of statistical values, allowing for an intuitive overview of the size distribution and overall tolerance state of the measured element. 

The advanced CAD import with PMI is now capable of interpreting modifier symbols of linear sizes and automatically creating the appropriate linear size measurements during import.

Additional import options allow you to choose the default modifier symbols to be used when linear sizes without specific modifier symbols are found in the PMI data.

You can now create regular elements for circles and two parallel opposing lines in a 2D view and use them for linear size measurements and various geometric tolerances. This is especially useful when you have to measure linear sizes in a specific cross section (SCS) of an element.

Customizable text color in reports
We further enhanced the customizability of reports: you can now set arbitrary colors for all textual layout elements to highlight certain results or custom text.

Exporting multiple movies or image stacks of an inspected component at a time
The new queuing function of the "Save movie/image stack" dialog allows you to parameterize and queue multiple export jobs, and subsequently export all image stacks or movies at a time without further interaction.

This will streamline your export process considerably, as you will no longer have to wait for the completion of each individual export job before being able to parameterize and start the next one.

The new explanatory texts will make it easier for users to understand the purpose and functionality of both the "Bookmark" and the "Automation" tool and improve the accessibility of the software.

The computation of deformation fields can now be automated via macro. This way, you can save time in your daily work when using deformation fields for the “Morph mesh” or the "Compensation mesh" function, or for adaptive ROIs or coordinate measurement templates.

Sharing comprehensive inspection results just became even easier. The new HTML format is an all-in-one solution that also supports interactive elements, like part or result 3D views. These self-contained documents eliminate the need for a separate viewer application and are easily accessible with any Chromium-based browser like Edge or Chrome.

Simplify standard conform measurements with direct support for modifier symbols. These include two-point measurements [LP], the envelope requirement (E), and global modifier symbols like [GG], empowering easy evaluations for many size features. 

Now, projects loaded during batch processing won't automatically clutter your recent files list. This ensures your manually worked-on projects remain readily accessible. However, if you prefer the previous setup, don't worry — you can always change this setting in Preferences.

You can now specify the sphere radius in length units, even on anisotropic data sets. Enjoy significantly boosted performance, reaching computation speeds that are more than 50 times faster — specifically noticeable when utilizing larger radius values.

PNG format for streamlined image stack import and export
You can now bypass the need for additional file conversions when using PNG as a storage or data exchange format. Enjoy a faster workflow for importing and exporting your volume data.

New DICONDE export

Volume data can now also be exported in the DICONDE format, which includes the existing tags. For volumes that were not imported from DICONDE, the necessary tags are created on the fly.

In the past, transferring metainformation like DICONDE tags between different volumes in a scene was impossible. With this feature, you can now easily move this essential information, even when creating entirely new volumes from initial scan results. This enhancement ensures traceability is maintained throughout your process, keeping your work consistent and structured.