QuickView™

QuickView™ is an intuitive and easy-to-use software package that gives a real time, graphical view of the Renishaw ML10 laser's measurement data sampled at 5 kHz, thus eliminating the need to capture, save and then analyse.

Oscilloscopes have been used for many years by electrical engineers to investigate variations in voltage or current versus time. QuickView™ now brings the same capability to the mechanical engineer by displaying variations in linear or angular displacement, velocity or acceleration against time.

It enables quick and easy investigation of travel linearity, acceleration times to travel velocity, over-travel and settle times at target positions, as well as resonance and damping.

Software features

Below is an example of the QuickView™ software.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QuickView™ is Windows™ XP compatible and is easily connected to a laptop or desktop PC via a USB port using the DX10 interface. This provides a robust and reliable data interface to QuickView™ software transferring data at 5 kHz.

Functionality included in QuickView™:

• Live data capture with oscilloscope display
• Two modes of collating data, continuous "streaming" and triggered
• Trigger mode allows snap shots of data events to be captured and analysed
• Data is easily exportable in CSV (exportable to spreadsheet and Mathcad) format for off-line analysis
• Easy to use frequency measurement facility
• Linear, angular or straightness measurement options
• Select from distance, velocity and acceleration displays
• Pan and zoom function enables detailed analysis of reoccurring error sources

It has applications anywhere where there's a need for accurate and flexible investigation and measurement. It is especially attractive to motion system manufacturers, (and machine integrators), research laboratories and academic institutions carrying out detailed motion system analysis in fact anywhere where live review of data is useful. E.g. servo tuning and other "what if" type investigations.

Using an icon based interface, (almost no text) with a single screen for set-up, system status and data view, the "oscilloscope" function gives a very graphic display of the captured (or "streaming") data. A separate "always-on" status bar gives an "at a glance" view of ML10, environmental and measurement status and warnings.

Coupled with the functionality of Laser10 and Error Compensation software, Renishaw now offer a comprehensive software suite to meet the needs of the precision engineering world.

Specification

Linear1	Accuracy	Noise4	Resolution
Displacement	±0.7 ppm	±25 nm	1.24 nm
Velocity	±0.01%	±0.03 m/s	0.001 mm/s
Acceleration	±0.01%	±0.25 m/s/s (0.025 g)	6 mm/s/s (0.001 g)
Angular2
Displacement	±0.6%	±0.1 arc sec	0.01 arc sec
Velocity	±0.6%	±75 arc sec/s	10 arc sec/s
Acceleration	±0.6%	±200 deg/s/s	12 deg/s/s
Short range straightness3
Displacement	±0.5%	±450 nm	55 nm
Long range straightness3
Displacement	±2.5%	±4500 nm	550 nm

Notes:
1: Linear specification based on a linear velocity of 0.25 m/s and a filter response time of 1 ms
2: Angular specification based on an angular velocity of 10 deg/s and a filter response time of 1 ms
3: Straightness specification based on a transverse velocity of 1 mm/s and a filter response time of 1 ms
4: Exact noise level is filter dependant.  QuickView™ has user selectable filter response times of 0, 1, 2, 5, 10 20, 50 and 100 ms

Time based accuracy is 0.01%

PC requirements

Computer	IBM PC
Processor	I GHz, Intel Pentium / Celeron family
Operating system	Windows® XP (SP1 & SP2)
Drives	CD-ROM
Screen	1024 x 768 pixels minimum resolution, SVGA
Interface	1 USB 1 slot
Browser	Internet Explorer Version 4 or later