Carl Zeiss now offers the 5th generation of contact scanning. The new VAST® Performance Kit is available for the top-of-the-line PRISMO®, CenterMax® and GageMax® coordinate measuring machines. It incorporates various elements of optimized hardware and software to increase the performance of measurements. A new generation of active probes delivers very high speed and thus considerably improved measuring productivity. The Performance Kit offers high result reliability and a clear reduction of the measuring time for many applications.
The outstanding benefit of VAST Performance is the ability to scan over interrupted contours (FlyScan). In the past, 16 scanning paths were required to measure a flange that has a plane surface interrupted with boreholes. VAST Performance reduces this number to one. The existing method for this measurement required extensive programming that resulted in a measuring time of 75 seconds. VAST Performance not only considerably simplifies programming, but the measuring time for the feature is also reduced nearly 70% to 23 seconds – with absolutely reliable measuring results.
The improvement for the measurement of a pinion is even more evident. A single-point measurement delivers a satisfactory statement, but the measuring time is at least 286 seconds, or around five minutes. Scanning with VAST Performance enables an in-depth statement on the form and diameter with a measuring time of only 71 seconds.