VTube-LASER

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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.)
  • 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:

  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.


VTube-LASER Clients

Examples of actual clients:

Aircraft

VTube-LASER is used by British Airways to measure tube from planes for retrofit. Click on the image to see the FARO blog entry details for the application.

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Aerospace

VTube-LASER is used to inspect tubes for military drones.

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Excavators

VTube-LASER is used to check the hydraulic lines for excavators.

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

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Fuel/Brake Lines

A manufacturer that fabricates tube for the large truck industry. They adjust a bank of benders that are connected directly to VTube-LASER.

Mining Industry

A manufacturer that fabricates pipe for the mining industry. They adjust very large benders that are connected to VTube-LASER.

Oil Industry

A manufacturer of undersea oil caps that have hundreds of hydraulic lines. They reverse-engineer mock-ups for fabrication.


List of Benefits of Using VTube-LASER for Tube Measurement

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


VTube Related Program IDs Used for Licensing

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


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