{"id":140032,"date":"2022-05-31T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T02:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/when-manufacturers-should-use-3d-measurement-for-surface-finishing"},"modified":"2022-05-31T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T02:22:39","slug":"when-manufacturers-should-use-3d-measurement-for-surface-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/when-manufacturers-should-use-3d-measurement-for-surface-finishing","title":{"rendered":"When Manufacturers Should Use 3D Measurement for Surface Finishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-manufacturers-should-use-3d-measurement-for-surface-finishing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two-dimensional surface profiling systems are excellent for measuring surface finish under certain conditions, but three-dimensional measurement systems offer more robust data. Photo Credit: George Schuetz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning,\u201d as some might say, an experienced machinist would use a scratch pad and an educated fingernail to determine the surface quality of a part. Then, in the 1940s, the first series of electronic surface finish gages were developed. Today, machinists and quality labs have surface finish standards and parameters and a variety of gages to measure surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>There are two basic varieties of surface finish gage: skid-type, or averaging systems and skidless, or profiling systems. Skidded gages have a hinged probe assembly, with the probe riding next to a relatively broad skid that also contacts the workpiece. The skid tends to filter out waviness, so the probe measures only short-wavelength variations. A skidded gage usually has a dial or LCD readout to display the measurement as a single numerical value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-dimensional surface profiling systems are excellent for measuring surface finish under certain conditions, but three-dimensional measurement systems offer more robust data. Photo Credit: George Schuetz. \u201cIn the beginning,\u201d as some might say, an experienced machinist would use a scratch pad and an educated fingernail to determine the surface quality of a part. Then, in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}