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== Tutorials and Information ==
 
== Tutorials and Information ==
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===Linking to Benders for Corrections===
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* Read about [[VTube-LASER Bender Corrections]]
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* About [[VTube Communication for Winton Benders]]
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* How to [[Setup VTube for Supravision Network Communication]]
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* Read about [[VTube Communication with YLM Benders]]
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* How we connect [[VTube-LASER to Eaton Leonard Bender]]s - Premier,EL-2000, and VE-LOG
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* [[Damping Bender Corrections with VTube-LASER]]
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===SOLIDWORKS===
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* [[Setup of SolidWorks Template File Paths]]
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===Performance===
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* Recommended [[VTube-LASER Screen Resolution]]
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* Recommended [[VTube Computer Specification]]
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* How to check [[OpenGL Drivers]] versions
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* See [[Measuring Center Accessories]] for turnkey components recommended
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* [[Ideal Windows Font Size for VTube]]
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===Setup===
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* Read about the [[VTube Language Editor]]
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* How to [[Import VTube Report Templates]]
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* How to find the [[VTube Report Template Location]]
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* [[How VTube Handles Data Storage for Multiple User Logins]]
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* [[How to Activate the VTube-LASER Hardware Key]]
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* How to [[Setup VTube-LASER for the Network License Manager]]
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* How to find the [[VTube Bender Template Location]]
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* [[How to Setup Reports to Show Bender Plus Adjusted Data]]
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* [[How to Adjust the VTube License Type in the Config File]]
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* How to [[Set the Number of Values Beyond the Decimal for VTube]]
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* How to [[Change the VTube User Interface Language]]
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* How to [[Change the VTube Default Setup]]
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* [[How to find the VTube configuration files]]
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* [[How to copy the VTube configuration files for different Windows user logins]]
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===Other===
 
* About [[VTube-LASER Cut Planes]]
 
* About [[VTube-LASER Cut Planes]]
 
* About [[Ball Probe Setup]]
 
* About [[Ball Probe Setup]]
 
* About the [[FARO Version 6 Scanner]]
 
* About the [[FARO Version 6 Scanner]]
 
* About the [[VTube-LASER Spike Filter]]
 
* About the [[VTube-LASER Spike Filter]]
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* About [[VTube Communication for Winton Benders]]
 
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* How to [[Setup VTube for Supravision Network Communication]]
 
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* [[Setup of SolidWorks Template File Paths]]
 
 
* Read about the VTube-LASER [[Calibration-Leapfrog-Move Targets]]
 
* Read about the VTube-LASER [[Calibration-Leapfrog-Move Targets]]
 
* Read about the [[VTube-LASER Tube Clamp]]
 
* Read about the [[VTube-LASER Tube Clamp]]
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* See [[VTube Overbend Calculations for Springback]]
 
* See [[VTube Overbend Calculations for Springback]]
 
* [[VTube-LASER - End Scan Diameter Qualification Tolerance]]
 
* [[VTube-LASER - End Scan Diameter Qualification Tolerance]]
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* Read about [[VTube-LASER Bender Corrections]]
 
 
* Read about measuring [[VTube Rectangular Tubes]]
 
* Read about measuring [[VTube Rectangular Tubes]]
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* Read about [[VTube Communication with YLM Benders]]
 
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* Read about the [[VTube Language Editor]]
 
 
* See the list of [[VTube-LASER Advantages]]
 
* See the list of [[VTube-LASER Advantages]]
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* How to [[Import VTube Report Templates]]
 
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* How to find the [[VTube Report Template Location]]
 
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* [[How VTube Handles Data Storage for Multiple User Logins]]
 
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* [[Damping Bender Corrections with VTube-LASER]]
 
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* [[How to Activate the VTube-LASER Hardware Key]]
 
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* How to [[Setup VTube-LASER for the Network License Manager]]
 
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* Recommended [[VTube-LASER Screen Resolution]]
 
 
* [[How to Measure a short end-straight with a flange]]
 
* [[How to Measure a short end-straight with a flange]]
 
* How to [[Change the default linear units in VTube]]
 
* How to [[Change the default linear units in VTube]]
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* Recommended [[VTube Computer Specification]]
 
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* How we connect [[VTube-LASER to Eaton Leonard Bender]]s - Premier,EL-2000, and VE-LOG
 
 
* Explain [[Sigma]] as it relates to errors.
 
* Explain [[Sigma]] as it relates to errors.
 
* [[End-Scan Technique Research]]
 
* [[End-Scan Technique Research]]
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* How to [[Convert from TubeCalc Elongation to VTube Elongation]]
 
* How to [[Convert from TubeCalc Elongation to VTube Elongation]]
 
* [[VTube-LASER Model Colors]]
 
* [[VTube-LASER Model Colors]]
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* How to find the [[VTube Bender Template Location]]
 
 
* [[Best-Fit Alignment Versus Hard-Point Alignment]]
 
* [[Best-Fit Alignment Versus Hard-Point Alignment]]
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* How to check [[OpenGL Drivers]] versions
 
 
* How to [[Measure Large Diameter Tubing]]
 
* How to [[Measure Large Diameter Tubing]]
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* [[How to Setup Reports to Show Bender Plus Adjusted Data]]
 
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* See [[Measuring Center Accessories]] for turnkey components recommended
 
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* [[How to Adjust the VTube License Type in the Config File]]
 
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* How to [[Set the Number of Values Beyond the Decimal for VTube]]
 
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* How to [[Change the VTube User Interface Language]]
 
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* How to [[Change the VTube Default Setup]]
 
 
* How to [[Import the Split Bend with STEP Version of "VTube-LASER Demo CAD Model 2"]]
 
* How to [[Import the Split Bend with STEP Version of "VTube-LASER Demo CAD Model 2"]]
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* [[How to find the VTube configuration files]]
 
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* [[How to copy the VTube configuration files for different Windows user logins]]
 
 
* See how CAM2 can work with VTube-LASER to measure components around tube shapes.  See [[FARO CAM2]]
 
* See how CAM2 can work with VTube-LASER to measure components around tube shapes.  See [[FARO CAM2]]
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* [[Ideal Windows Font Size for VTube]]
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Revision as of 14:21, 12 December 2015

Vtube-laser logo 1.96.png Connect to a FARO ScanArm, measure tube shapes, and correct benders.

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Quick Links



Partners and Distributors

  • FARO - FARO is the world leader in articulated arms. The FARO Americas division is our exclusive VTube-LASER distributor for North and South America. Other divisions of FARO also sell VTube-LASER. (See the FARO web page for more information.)
  • Horn Machine Tools - HMT Benders and CSM Benders
  • UNISON - All electric benders from the UK
  • SMI- Italian line of Silver benders
  • CRIPPA - Italian benders


Executive Summary

VTube-LASER uses the laser scanner and/or ball probe to:

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  1. Measure tube, pipe, and wire shapes
  2. Qualify the shape or path of the part based on centerline tolerances
  3. Correct bending machines
  4. Reverse-engineer existing parts
  5. Print reports
  6. Quickly import and export tube data from other software
  7. Remove the need for tube fixtures and gauges to qualify parts.


Example VTube-LASER Clients and Applications

Airlines

VTube-LASER is used by British Airways to measure tube from planes for retrofit. See the FARO blog for details of the British Airways application.

VTube-LASER is also used at US-based airlines for the same purpose.

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Aerospace

VTube-LASER is used to inspect tubes for military drones. The tubes are aluminum, titanium, or inconel. Sometimes these tubes are longer than the reach of the arm, so this customer uses the Leapfrog capability of VTube-LASER.

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Excavators

VTube-LASER is used to check the hydraulic lines for excavators. The tubes usually have baked-on yellow or black paint.

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Truck Frames

VTube-LASER is used to measure pre-hydroformed truck frames to adjust benders so that the pipe fits into pre-crush presses.

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Truck Fuel and Brake Lines

VTube-LASER is used to measure tube for the large truck industry. This customer replaced a MM5000 measuring center with a FARO-VTube-LASER system to adjust a bank of benders that are connected directly to VTube-LASER.

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Mining

VTube-LASER measures tubes for the mining industry. This customer measures very long large diameter pipe on the shop floor.

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Undersea Oil

VTube-LASER is used to measure tubing that surrounds undersea oil caps with hundreds of hydraulic lines.

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Some Key Features of VTube-LASER

Benefit 1 - Super Quick Project Setup

Other measurement programs are often more generic in their approach to geometry. In order to measure a tube, it is necessary to build up individual elements and create a script for the process.

Because VTube assumes that you will be measuring a tube shape, the project setup is very quick and easy - saving hundreds of steps required in other programs.

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Benefit 2 - Built-in Automated Process for Measuring Tubes

You don't have to guess at the order of the steps to measure a tube. When you measure a tube with VTube, the methods for gathering the information and calculating the centerline, intersection points, and bend data are preprogrammed as a series of consistent steps that never change and never have to be scripted.

VTube knows what you should give it, and it will always request that data in order using the Measure a Tube control window.

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Benefit 3 - Built in Feedback to Increase Confidence in the Data

VTube-LASER has special procedures that help anticipate the level of confidence you will have in the incoming data. There are series of crosschecks just for measuring tubing, both mathematical and on-screen, that allow users to know if the data is good.

For example, the Cylinder Fit Data window shows the accuracy of the centerline calculated from cylinder points by reporting the X and Y wobble deviations.

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Benefit 4 - Built-in Bender Correction

VTube-LASER knows how to correct benders - and has special menus and procedures for doing that well.

See a list of benders for communication

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Tutorials and Information

Linking to Benders for Corrections

SOLIDWORKS

Performance

Setup

Other



VTube Related Program IDs Used for Licensing

PID Program Licensed
354 VTube-STEP
356 VTube-LASER
360 VTube-LASER Programmer


Other Pages

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