Phase3D, a 3D printing software program developer, has launched its in-situ high quality assurance system, Fringe Inspection, for the Renishaw 500Q and different 500-series platforms (500S, 500D, and 500Flex). The brand new Fringe Inspection 500 Package affords high-resolution, layer-by-layer heightmaps, offering powder mattress fusion customers with a repeatable, calibratable, unit-based inspection device. Designed to help qualification by means of to manufacturing, Fringe Inspection helps cut back scrap, streamline workflows, and make critical-use steel additive manufacturing economically viable.
“We’re thrilled to broaden our providing to the Renishaw 500Q… Fringe Inspection is purpose-built to satisfy the calls for of at this time’s most superior steel additive manufacturing programs,” mentioned Niall O’Dowd, Founder and CEO of Phase3D.
Developed with HRL Laboratories and designed to help the DARPA SURGE initiative, this non-invasive, reversible system could be put in in underneath 24 hours with minimal downtime. “Collaborating with Phase3D allowed us to unlock new insights… drastically enhancing our capability to evaluate half high quality whereas printing,” mentioned Eric Clough, R&D Group Lead at HRL.
Fringe Inspection makes use of structured gentle and digital fringe projection to seize full-field Z-height maps of every layer in a construct. In contrast to visible, coaxial, or thermal programs, it delivers real-time, micron-scale metrology measurements, enabling quantification of anomalies similar to recoater streaks, hops, brief feeds, spatter, and extra—with sub-10 µm repeatability and no added cycle time.
To combine with the Renishaw 500Q, Phase3D engineered a drop-in {hardware} package that swaps Renishaw’s digicam with its personal projector meeting and features a customized laser-safe digicam port that preserves gasoline circulate. The total set up—calibration, validation, check print, and coaching—is accomplished inside 24 hours by a Phase3D technician and is absolutely reversible.
The system produces three sorts of heightmaps per layer: a Powder Heightmap exhibiting powder unfold uniformity, a Melted Heightmap revealing post-laser floor adjustments, and a True Layer Thickness map that quantifies powder supply and course of stability. Visible pictures accompany every heightmap for conventional inspection.
Efficiency specs embrace ±10 µm repeatability, ±50 µm absolute planar deviation (σ = 20 µm), 250 mm full-bed protection, a 36° seize angle, and
