Digital Surf recently announced the tenth major release of Mountains, its software platform for surface metrology and microscopy, acclaimed by some 50 leading instrument manufacturers and over 22,000 users.
Version 10 includes a new product family for optical microscope users, MountainsImage, offering a complete toolbox for pre-processing and analyzing image data. This new range includes dedicated tools for enhancement, measurement, luminance histograms, color inversion, conversion to monochrome image, particle analysis with color segmentation, fiber analysis and image contour analysis.
A new industry-specific lens analysis module has also been integrated, for the study of aspherical optical profiles and surfaces in applications such as imaging systems, sensors and lasers.
Automation functions, essential in today's fast-moving industrial and research environment, have been enhanced. Above all, a new Automation tab now brings together Mountains' productivity features, such as template documents for handling large batches of measured data, user-defined analysis recipes ("Minidocs") and customization options to help users work faster.
In the field of CAD comparison for hull data (free-form surfaces), users can now compare measured hull data with CAD models, and access comprehensive surface state analysis for hull datasets.
Mountains 10 also introduces an innovation in spectral analysis: MountainsSpectral Analyze has been designed for users working exclusively with spectra, with automatic peak detection and adjustment and parameter map generation.
The new Fiber Analysis tool has been integrated into all product families, including those designed for topography analysis.
"Our company is constantly striving to offer the ever-evolving fields of surface metrology and microscopy the very best in surface analysis and imaging, explains Christophe Mignot, CEO of Digital Surf. Version 10 is our most comprehensive software product to date, completing the intercompatibility between the different data types and instrument technologies we handle: topography analysis, image analysis and spectroscopy analysis. We're delighted to introduce Mountains 10 to our users, and look forward to their feedback."