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Eliminate check fixtures.
Predict dimensional quality.
Traditional dimensional inspection methods depend on part-specific fixtures, which are expensive to design, manufacture, calibrate, and store. Hexagon’s Virtual Fixture solution eliminates this reliance by enabling dimensional inspections using generic fixturing devices that simply hold the parts on pins. This approach enables metrology data collection in a “free state” or “flat” orientation, achieving precision with an accuracy of 0.5mm or better, even for large, thin sheet metal parts and assemblies. Virtual Fixture is also highly effective beyond sheet metal applications and can be applied to machined aerospace components and other complex geometries.
The solution ensures accurate dimensional inspection for precision-machined parts, multi-part assemblies, and components with strict tolerance requirements by leveraging advanced geometry morphing, gravity compensation, and non-linear physics modeling. Applying a Reference Point System (RPS) or metrology datums enables Virtual Fixture to replicate real-world clamping and alignment, making it suitable for flexible and rigid structures across various industries.
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Streamline dimensional inspection
Our technologies integrate seamlessly into existing metrology workflows:
Beyond zero prototypes
The challenges of prototyping slow down your time to market and cost you money. Designing, checking, measuring, and rechecking parts takes time (and money), slowing down your time to market. Once a part has been designed and prototyped, you have limited ability to go back and optimize based on the final assembly. This process of designing, building, testing, redesigning, rebuilding, and retesting takes precious time and resources.
Inspection programs face:
🔹They need to design, build, store, and calibrate part-specific check fixtures
🔹They need to design, build, store, and build complex multi-part assembly check fixtures
🔹Operators' influence and measurement variability
Without digital certainty, every inspection is a gamble.
The challenge: Transforming component inspection
Hexagon Design & Engineering Virtual Manufacturing software stack enables simulation-led process design across all manufacturing domains, with performance that meets all your unique inspection requirements.
Let’s help you:
- Qualify without compromise
- Simulate before you test
- Inspect without any question
Hexagon Virtual Fixture enables the virtualization of check fixture processes through flexible, software-based workflows. Solutions support auto, aero, electronics, and a host of other industry applications. With Hexagon’s Virtual Fixture:
🔹Eliminate the need for part-specific check fixtures
🔹Advanced geometry morphing based on single or multiple metrology (scan) data sets
🔹Ability to scan parts in “flat” orientation with flexible (3+ point) fixture
🔹 Reduce operator influence and measurement variability
🔹 Eliminate the need for a complex multi-part assembly check fixture
🔹 Integrated automation to simplify workflows for metrology operators
Our response: Virtualization of the check fixture process
🔹 Potential for “lights out metrology” - automate the free state scanning process entirely – when coupled with automatically configurable, simple/flexible fixturing, the process could be fully automated
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Powerful tools for virtual part fixture check
Flexible software-based workflows enable virtualisation of check fixture processes. By performing a virtual check of components using flexible, generic fixturing, you can understand the impact of the manufacturing process on dimensional tolerances.
Virtual Fixture
Welding process simulation software robustly simulates complex multi-station fixturing and assembly of complex assemblies with hundreds of joints. Perform a “virtual tryout” before the first part is fabricated.
Simufact welding
Evaluate and optimize the inspection process virtually to get to the right fit and function faster in reality. Exactly the right check fixture use case you need.
