ATS Products - ATS Quality Manager

Use Case: Bad

Use Case: Medium

Use Case: Good

>Home > Products > Software >
ATS Quality Manager

Control scanning post processing with ATS Quality Manager.
ATS Quality Manager is a tool for checking the quality when matching together several FARO scans in a workspace. The program is used both to control the match quality during the process and to report the final result to a customer.

The program exists in two versions:

Standalone
Plug-in to FARO SCENE software

The standalone version opens FARO fws files which are the workspaces used by SCENE 4.8 and earlier.

If SCENE 5.0 or later is used it is advised to use the SCENE Plug-in version instead. The plug-in version is integrated in SCENE and will evaluate any workspace opened by SCENE. Just click the toolbar icon to show the report.
Other than this, the user interface is the same in both versions.

Key Features:

Real time feedback on matching quality in a FARO workspace
Easy to use visual interface
Customizable quality value thresholds
Easy to spot duplicated references, bad fittings, bad distributions and other errors
3D view of scan fittings
Easy and customizable report generation in PDF format

Easy to use visual interface	Customizable thresholds
3D view of scan fittings	Report generation in PDF format

ATS Quality Manager 2.1
The new ATS QM is an improvement over ATS Quality Manager 1.0 in almost every way. Apart from containing all functionality of the old version it improves on almost every area.

New features:

Support for SCENE 5.3
Improved loading (better synchronization between ATS QM and SCENE)
Improved reference recognition and handling of complex reference relationships
It is now possible to right click scans in ATS QM and open them in SCENE
ScanManagers and ScanFits can be updated via ATS QM
References can be located in SCENE from ATS QM
References and the inclinometer can be disabled and enabled directly from ATS QM
Can show scan in ATS QM via scan right click menu in SCENE
Quality indicators for references
A new warnings & fixes tab which lists potential problems with the project
More information on the summary page including new point distance distribution chart and project warnings summary
Most graphics are improved to use anti-aliasing
Reference angle distribution window in Scan Info tab improved
All lists can be sorted by each of their columns
New Mismatch Fields feature added to 3D View
PDF reports can now use JPEG images and by default use the project picture if it exists

Demo
ATS Quality Manager now has a demo mode.
Download the demo here: QualityManager2.1.1

The demo has all the functionality of the full version program, but with certain limitations:

Only 5 scans will be loaded, even if the project contains more
PDF reports can not be created

The demo can then be upgraded to full version by purchasing the full software via FARO 3D App Center.
To upgrade simply take the code received when buying the full version, open the License Manager for ATS QM and request a new license using that code.

Help


Better connectivity between SCENE and ATS Quality Manager	Enable/disable inclinometer and references directly from ATS Quality Manager

New Warnings & Fixes tab	Save PDF reports using the project picture

Use Mismatch Fields to find tensions in a fitting

Workflow:

Do the field scanning as normal.
Create the project workspace in Scene as normal.
a.(Standalone) Open the workspace in ATS Quality Manager.
b.(Plug-in) Click the ATS Quality Manager toolbar icon in SCENE.
Now one can easily work with Scene and ATS Quality Manager side by side. Whenever a change is made in SCENE the quality will automatically be re-evaluated by ATS Quality Manager.
Once the scans are matched with good enough quality a final PDF-report can be produced with ATS Quality Manager.

Field scanning with ATS SRS

Scene and ATS Quality Report

ATS Product Family:
ATS Quality Manager also works good together with other ATS products such as the ATS Scan Reference System (SRS). A project scanned using this system typically gets higher match quality across the board compared to using a competing system.

User Cases:
To help getting started, we have created some user cases where the registration quality is Bad, Medium and Good. See links on the left.