3D profilometry

All the articles in our blog about 3D profilometry

Monday, May 22, 2023
Webinar Sensofar profilometry metrology: The Art of Measuring Super Smooth Surfaces

Are you interested in mastering the characterization of super smooth surfaces?

Super smooth surfaces are crucial in various industries, ensuring top-notch performance and accuracy. From aerospace and automotiv...

Monday, June 6, 2022

Full field vibration mode shape and transient analysis

  • Non-Scanning MEMS Analyzer
  • Million-data-points vibration maps
  • Picometer vibration resolution
  • In- and out-of-plane up to 25Mhz...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Would you like to get an exclusive first glimpse at the new features coming in Mountains® 9.2?

Then register now to join this upcoming webinar in which Alexis Morand, Learning engineer at Digital Surf, will walk you through the highlights of the latest version of...

Thursday, February 10, 2022
Sensofar's new line of 3D Profiler Integrable Heads

Sensofar’s line of Integrable Heads is available

More than just a birthday, Sensofar has even more achievements to celebrate!

Sensofar Metrology, with over 20 years’ experience in developing optical surface metrology systems, is launching a new four-sensor...

Thursday, November 25, 2021
Diamagnetic acoustic booth made with aluminum

Schaefer's technological offer, for scientists and researchers, also includes acoustic booths, with a very high degree of customization. We have already gained significant experience in the field, delivering several booths to clients in industrial and academic research. Each...

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
October 4-9, 2021 - EMO MILANO 2021

October 4-9, 2021 - The most awaited European meeting of the year for the manufacturing industry is taking place!

Sensofar ansd Schaefer will be there, featuring the latest systems!

All attendees who visit us will have the opportunity to see a live...

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Webinar - How 3D Non-contact Surface measurement can improve your Additive Manufacturing process

Thursday, 3th June:

  • 10 A.M. CEST time 
  • 6 P.M. CEST time

Additive Manufacturing has quickly become an acceptable process within many areas of manufacturing.

Complex designs with improved functionality are easily produced using additive...

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
3d Profiler flagship system S neox from Sensofar

Sensofar S neox

Sensofar has substantially improved the performance of the S neox, adding important upgrades concerning process automation, usability and automation of the system. The system validation package, ensuring compliance with all standards and protocols, has also been improved.
The new features...

Monday, January 11, 2021
Sources of Vibration in a Lab

We're the distributors of Daeil Systems instruments. Daeil is a korean company that supplies a wide range of vibration isolation systems, including thousands of optical tables, from passive to active isolation systems. Customers are industries,...

Monday, November 16, 2020
Case study: uno strumento accurato, veloce e facile da usare per studiare un nuovo metodo di texturing superficiale 3D

S lynx - Compact 3D surface profiler

Have a look at this case study: "Reducing Friction for Efficient Motion of Sliding Surfaces by Laser Surface Texturing".

Here below we summarize the main topics of this interesting article.

The problem: "Energy losses due to friction and wear of sliding surfaces...

Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The poster-document to be used along with the S neox

Due to the complexity involving optical surface metrology, Sensofar has developed a poster-document that will help you understand all the points and steps to follow in the measurement process with the ...

Monday, June 22, 2020
Webinar - ISO 25178: Surface Texture Characterization

ISO 25178 is considered one of the main milestones in the characterization of 3D areal surface texture. It is based on the principle that nature is inherently three-dimensional. Thus, it is the...

Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Webinar 11th of June, 2020: Tribology, Measuring Surfaces Effectively

Thu, Jun 11, 2020 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CEST
Thu, Jun 11, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CEST

In this webinar you will expand your knowledge in roughness characterization by moving from contact stylus profile Ra analysis to Sa Optical areal analysis.
Wear...

Thursday, April 23, 2020
Webinar  29/04/2020: Optical Metrology Techniques, the MasterClass!

Wed, Apr 29, 2020 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

In the culmination of an incredible Month of Webinar Trainings, we invite you to join Sensofar's Technologies Master Class next week!

During this final session, people from Sensofar will discuss the optical...

Saturday, April 18, 2020
Webinar 22/04/2020 - All you need to know about surface measurements in Tooling

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM  CEST

The designing and manufacturing of tools directly affects the production quality of the end-user industry, and metrology requirements in the tooling market are more challenging every day.

The need to measure thinner tools...

Friday, April 3, 2020

Sensofar S Wide - Large area 3D optical profilometer

Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM  CEST

Presented by: Carles Otero & Sandra de Pedro

Learn all about Sensofar’s new...

Friday, February 7, 2020
High speed DHM® equipped with a Nova Photron Camera

New World Record!

A new milestone has been reached in the field of ultrafast 3D topography measurements with the delivery to Professor James Friends, University California of San Diego, of a DHM T1000 equipped with a Photron Nova high speed camera enabling 12’500 3D...

Monday, January 13, 2020
Empty-Warehouse Operation: optical profilometers and benchtop SEM for sale!

PROMOTION ENDED - All the instruments have been sold

We are selling two 3D optical profilometers (Sensofar S Neox and GBS Ilmenau Compact) and a very recently produced benchtop SEM (manufactured by the korean company Emcrafts). They have never been installed...

Tuesday, July 9, 2019
31 July 2019 - Sensofar Webinar: Optical Metrology Solutions for Semiconductor & Microelectronics

Join us as we share insight and expert advice on key topics facing the critical optical dimensional measurement and material analysis

This webinar will discuss specific analysis for QC in PCB applications during 1 hour. It will also cover critical dimensional measurement...

Thursday, May 30, 2019
GBS Ilmenau - Unique features presented at the Control Show 2019 in Stuttgart

GBS ILmenau has exhibited their instruments at the Control Show in Stuttgart at the beginning of May. As many competitors they wanted to demonstrate their capabilities. Since not everyone had the opportunity to visit the exhibition we've picked up a few applications in the form of 3D scans....

Monday, February 18, 2019
new S neox 3D Optical Profiler

Schaefer Italy is proud to announce the release by Sensofar Metrology of the 5th generation of its flagship optical profiler. The S neox is a high-performance non-contact 3D optical profiler microscope system purposely-designed for sub-nano, nano and micro-scale...

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
SmartWLI compact - White light interferometer for industrial applications

The accelerated smartWLI's getting now integrated in production lines. With high-speed cameras and  real time calculation of the point cloud on graphic boards achieve the GBS now with white-light interferometers height resolutions of 0.1 nm and cycle times below 1 s. The image acquisition with...

Monday, April 16, 2018
Profilometro ottico S Neox Five Axis - La soluzione Sensofar per la misura in Full 3D

Sensofar Metrology has announced a new addition to their high-end non-contact 3D surface metrology systems, the »Five Axis«. The new 3D optical profiler combines a high-accuracy rotational module and a high-resolution translation platform, together with advanced inspection and...

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Sensofar Webinar - SensoSCAN 6.4 - Software Profilometria 3D 28 Nov. 2017 11:00 - 11:40

Schaefer Italy would like to invite you to the live session of the new version 6.4 release of the Sensofar software SensoSCAN.
 
In this version, you will find a lot of new features in the following sections: Inspection & Acquisition, Display & Analysis, Configuration &...

Monday, July 3, 2017
Workshop: State of the art in 3D Surface Metrology - Rovigo - July 26, 2017

Schaefer South-East Europe Srl is pleased to announce this workshop in 3D profilometry, which will be held by the end of July in Italy.
Here below are all the details.

Location: Lab TE.SI. Rovigo,
Viale Porta Adige, 45
Rovigo — 45100

Date:...

Monday, June 12, 2017
Nuove tecnologie per la misura della struttura superficiale: Confocal Fusion e Continuous Confocal - Webinar

Sensofar Metrology has developed new innovative software features for their 3-in-1 S-line 3D surface metrology systems. Two new measurement technologies –Confocal Fusion & Continuous Confocal– represent significant new developments in 3D surface metrology, and underline Sensofar’s...

Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Workshop: State of the art in 3D Surface Metrology - Rovigo - July 26, 2017

Surface Texture Measurement in 3D - Practical applications and guidelines for implementing ISO 25178. 

We will review: 

  • The need for 3D texture analysis as compared with linear profiles.
  • A basic description of the ISO parameters.
  • The concept of...
Monday, March 27, 2017
New technologies for 3D surface metrology - Confocal Fusion and Continuous Confocal

Confocal Fusion and Continuous Confocal are two new acquisition technologies developed by Sensofar that build on the existing S line hardware. For existing S line systems that feature at least Confocal and Focus Variation technologies (S neox, S lynx & S...

Wednesday, June 8, 2016
High-speed surface metrology with the new Sensofar S onix

Sensofar Metrology has released a new high-speed non-contact 3D surface sensor – the S onix. The S onix is a new and ultra-compact surface metrology system purpose-designed for high-speed in-line process measurement and process control tasks. It has been specifically designed...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016
3D profiler - S lynx - Sensofar

Sensofar Metrology has released a new high-resolution non-contact 3D surface profiler in a more compact format – the S lynx. The new system draws on over 14 years of experience in designing optical metrology systems for both R&D and industry, enabling Sensofar to pack the...

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Sensofar s Lynx 3D non contact profiler

Big news from Sensofar, the leading manufacturer in the optical metrology instruments field. It has been just announced a new optical 3D profiler, the S Lynx model. This instrument is the outcome of 14 years of research and development in this field. This model comes with a very small footprint...

Monday, October 26, 2015
AAC awards Best Paper to Sensofar

In the last report of the Aluminum Anodizers Annual Conference & Exhibition (Pittsburgh, 2014), Sensofar's "Using optical areal measurement methods to assess the surface shape and texture on aluminium anodized surfaces" article submission has received the Robert L. Kersman Award of...

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sensofar is organizing an Users' Meeting in Barcelona (CNMB) from the 9th to the 11th of June (the half-day of the 11th is optional, there will be an advanced training on the use of SensoMap software). During these three days there will be the opportunity to know the new...

Monday, September 1, 2014

From the 8th to the 12th of September Schaefer will organize a roadshow all around Italy to present the new optical profilometer 3D manufactured by Sensofar, the S Neox: 2 techinques in a single instrument. This is the new standard in the optical profilometry, it goes...