(InnovMetric: Quebec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software’s version 12 of PolyWorks incorporates the new DirectReplay technology that dramatically simplifies multipiece inspection tasks performed with any point-cloud digitizer or tactile probing device.

Most metrology products offer teaching modes to automate a multipiece inspection task. Teaching modes generally record user operations performed on a first piece in an operation history tree from which an automated inspection program is built. The program is edited by adding, removing, or editing operations in the history tree. A new piece is inspected by executing the sequence of operations in the history tree. This approach works well within preproduction and production contexts where fixed inspection programs can be prepared and applied uniformly on all pieces.

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