The caliper market has largely been able to avoid massive change for the past decade, which translates to limited compatibility with the digitally driven engineering workflow of today. Ultimately, the goal of the SmartCaliper is to improve the workflow of calipers in the modern digital age and push manufacturers to innovate again. Overall, the caliper industry has not pushed to innovate on their technologies, hence having no pressure from competitors.
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Our software integration is also extremely user-friendly since it only requires the user to press one button to send the data to the desired textbox in any CAD software.
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SmartCaliper aims to resolve these existing issues by taking the form factor of an inexpensive upgrade kit that can be installed on any digital caliper. This is because the software that handles the data transfer and its integration with the CAD environment is unintuitive and overall clunky to use, which fails to expedite the 3D modeling process.
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Despite the fact that engineers had access to high-end Mitutoyo calipers that have the capability of sending data to computers over a serial link, engineers still often do not use the data transferring feature. As a result, when the engineers have to turn those parts into 3D models, they often have to measure each dimension with their calipers and manually type those dimensions into the CAD software.
There do exist numerous cases where commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts are purchased without drawings or with inaccurate drawings. Similar to the one off components for space, large production run parts often require dimensions to be verified and fits checked for parts. The second example is from working with tight tolerance parts in a local mechanical engineering company. When the annotations need to be accessed again in the future, the Blender addon is also capable of loading in and editing them. In this case, SmartCalipers would have streamlined this process since it seamlessly transfers caliper data to Blender with our custom addon installed, which enables the user to annotate and record the tolerance information directly into the 3D Wavefront OBJ file itself.
This creates a source of error when recording the measurements and leaves no concrete log of the measurements for later use, unless they are digitized from the notebook. What is bizarre about this is the use of paper since it is counter-intuitive to record measurements from a digital caliper onto a piece of paper only to then check with a digital CAD model. This is then brought to a computer and compared. These measurements are often recorded from the caliper’s screen then written onto a piece of paper, usually a notebook. Consequently, an engineer and I began taking measurements of the part that could be causing the fit to deviate from the tolerance specification in the clean chamber. During the assembly process, there was a case of one of the parts not fitting correctly. First in aerospace, working with satellite hardware, there are a number of precision parts which all require their dimensions to be verified. To demonstrate the application in industry for the SmartCaliper, one of our team members offers two first-hand experiences from an aerospace company and mech engineering company.
Additionally, we offer a novel software package that integrates the SmartCaliper to not only analyze the part tolerances against its 3D model, but to also facilitate the computer-aided-designing (CAD) process. The SmartCaliper allows for measurement data to be digitally transferred from the caliper to the computer. We designed the SmartCaliper after seeing firsthand in the industry the limitations that modern calipers have hence we present a fresh vision for a technology that can reduce error and increase productivity for engineers and hobbyists. The SmartCaliper is a fresh approach to caliper design disrupting a stagnant market.
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