DaSalo
Mechanical
- Apr 27, 2010
- 213
Hello,
I am curious if anyone has any experience with designing or applying air gaging for inspection of complex shapes?
The shape I am interested in applying this to is a narrow, wedge shaped slot.
The thought is to do the following:
Create a hard gage that simulates the maximum material boundary of the slot. Install air gaging apertures at several cross sections along the length of the slot. The air gaging would be used to verify the least material boundary. Each aperture would be flowed individually in sequence and the results recorded with labview or some other data acquisition software.
The LMB is at +.005" from the surface of the gage. We would make a master to calibrate the apertures at +.0025 so we would be checking a +-.0025 range.
Is this at all practical with air gaging technology? I believe this is approaching the maximum range for linearity but I am not sure of that.
Does anyone have any experience with automating a system like this so each aperture would be flowed, recorded, and closed through an automated system driven by labview or something similar?
NX 7.5.4, NX 8.0.1.5
Tecnomatix Quality 8.0.1.3
PC-DMIS 2011 MR1
I am curious if anyone has any experience with designing or applying air gaging for inspection of complex shapes?
The shape I am interested in applying this to is a narrow, wedge shaped slot.
The thought is to do the following:
Create a hard gage that simulates the maximum material boundary of the slot. Install air gaging apertures at several cross sections along the length of the slot. The air gaging would be used to verify the least material boundary. Each aperture would be flowed individually in sequence and the results recorded with labview or some other data acquisition software.
The LMB is at +.005" from the surface of the gage. We would make a master to calibrate the apertures at +.0025 so we would be checking a +-.0025 range.
Is this at all practical with air gaging technology? I believe this is approaching the maximum range for linearity but I am not sure of that.
Does anyone have any experience with automating a system like this so each aperture would be flowed, recorded, and closed through an automated system driven by labview or something similar?
NX 7.5.4, NX 8.0.1.5
Tecnomatix Quality 8.0.1.3
PC-DMIS 2011 MR1
