Renishaw launches XCal-View laser calibration data analysis software

Renishaw says that XCal-View gives users greater control in their analysis of data than previously possible with functionality incorporating simple data manipulation and greater flexibility in the way that it can be compared, displayed, formatted and viewed. It can be used with the most common types of linear, angular, rotary, straightness, squareness and parallelism measurement in CNC machine tool calibration. XCal-View now features an extensively revised graphical user interface with an emphasis on ease of use; new analysis standards – ISO230-2 (2006) and JIS B and GB/T equivalents; a function allowing users to compare two sets of data, including graphical data overlay (valuable when observing effects of error compensation); a zero point shifting function allowing the user to offset data so that the displayed and effective zero position is different from that set at the time of data capture (useful when compensating for rotary axis errors); and a PDF reporting and 'copy' functionality. Renishaw also says that general error compensation has been vastly improved and is more effective and easier to use. XCal-View is the first part of a suite of software covering data capture analysis and error compensation and will integrate with additional future models to be released.