Dave checked out the Leica DVM6 3D microscope at the Electronex 2015 stand.
It's an $80000 microscope that can do automated 3D surface mapping and measurements of surfaces, down to sub 1 micron.
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Alright folks, this is the ultimate in optical porn. This is like a DVM 6 that's about 80 grand worth. It is completely digital so there's no optical light pieces or motorized zoom and you wouldn't believe some of the stuff it can do. Not only can it do stitch together large images higher, you can set it for the highest magnification and then you can get it to our pant like a pan across your entire surface.

It'll stitch together all your images but then it can also do different because it's got software motorized control over the Z-plane as well the height above it can actually stitch those together and give you a complete 3d view and gets everything in a massive depth of field to in in focus so we can get so stitches or it does all this in software. So I'm sure the software is actually worth more than the hardware probably to develop but yeah it is absolutely remarkable. This thing is oh it's worth every cent of it sir. $80,000 I'm sure but it's just it's just ridiculous.

They can get massive depth of field images over massive Plains so you can get like an entire die and you could focus oom right in and then stitch it all together to get some one massive high-resolution image. So we've actually got a live preview here. This is a die that we've got and you know we would have to run it through to process it and do all that sort of jazz. But yeah it is just phenomenal.

Wow and it can also do surface roughness of metals and get 3d profiles and all that sort of jazz. So we can do 3d measurements as well. Well you can measure the profile of yep oh you can actually do the profile as well. So Wow yeah yes, giving you the height of that object all straight over is that is terrific.

And that says show down here on our height profile we can get multiple measurements. It's just it's crazy. It is the most professional vision tool I've ever seen and here's one where they got to somebody measure the well depth of so it's each met or somebody scared it in here. at the show you can see that the the depth in there there.

I were to measure 40-yard microns and and that's all accurate as well. This is the middle of the range unit. You can get different ones that have different and different no z-axis ranges. You can go to sub MOT one micron z-axis resolution.

So yes, just absolutely amazing. All right. Well we've got is impromptu measurement of an Aussie 50-cent piece. Here we go and we go.

There's the is the crown and we're just going to try and get to see how the focus just came in. Ooh this is all software control. This is all mousy stuff. This is not fitting in with the dials although you can fiddle with the knobs, but that's what it's not with these systems for you know.

I'm a fan of knobs and we're going to actually try and maybe scan this whole thing. And then we go scan the crown. Then we'll go scan. You can see it's scanning the different.

That's not the camera going out of focus. That's the now everyone. Yeah, and we should. There we go.
We've got some of the profile. there isn't that? Jesse There we go. and we can probably do a height measurement on that. Yep.

Protocol changing. Frosty. Yep, that's not hugely high. Is it? No.

There we go. So that's our high profile across the crown on that coin. High. Brilliant.

What is that? Hundred microns? 150 microns? Yes. So from the lowest punt of the heist? Yep, it's birthday. 150 150 microns Fantastic. 80 grand.

I Think I'll pick one up and I'll pay cash and take it home, right? Hang on folks, it gets better. Look at these shots. It rotates Here we go. look I show you the screen.

There we go. Tilt angle on the top? Yeah, yep. that is beautiful and it rotates. Look at that.

Ah I Thought my mantis was good. No I want one of these and of course it's got both coaxial and ring light in that's just a coaxial light at the moment. and then we can. now.

you can see probably see a bit of noise on that image, but we can see the little that that's not a laser cut, that's some sort of fracture is it? I don't know something and we can switch on the ring light as well as the coaxial light. And there you go. That's just her image quality. Then we can turn off the coaxial.

You can see it's up, not quite as good. It can't beat a good coaxial light with that Fantastic. But when you combine the two like that unbeatable, You.

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27 thoughts on “Eevblog #796 – leica dvm6 3d microscope”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SixthyGTi says:

    I service microscopes and had an opportunity to work on this beast… Really impressive microscope but as it involves lots of electronics it tends to lag a bit and can have some bugs…
    The biggest dumb thing they did for its usage is Mac with Windows installed on it…

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MultiShawnt says:

    I'll take one,. No problem.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Octavio Quintana says:

    Amazing machine but that price … daamn

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex Julian says:

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the concept but the price???

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cure Aging says:

    This would be very useful in the scientific field

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Manny Calavera says:

    I'd want one to scan my old coins ๐Ÿ˜€

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Justin Hall says:

    Keyence does this kind of thing too. Very useful tech for reverse engineering.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Baerchenization says:

    Why do people complain that Porsches are expensive? You can pick one up for the price of a microscope – seems like a bargain to me !

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DeDaMrAz says:

    Win 7 installed on a Mac machine wins the video ๐Ÿ˜‰

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Marco Leong says:

    iMac with windows ๐Ÿ™‚

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars shayson1357 says:

    very interesting ๐Ÿ™‚

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Josh ADSETT says:

    bla bla. boring. lord dave

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars T3CHNOTURK says:

    i dont like apple but this thing is porno i love it. with a little custom software you can make a 3D scanner for the 3D printer at home.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars cozmium says:

    The software really isn't that impressive as it's been around for a very long time – it's a form of photogrammetry and i've been using it for years for graphics work. Basically all this system is doing is doing it on the fly; the software isn't that expensive and i can gaurantee it's still the hardware that costs a LOT more.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Barry Giblett says:

    Dave you neeeed one of those…

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ฮปGhost says:

    They're running windows 7 on a mac lol

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GEORGE ZARIFIS says:

    Something tells me this os a bit more advanced than my 65 year old Spencer…

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Luviskol 01 says:

    Thats Pornographic

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Zawadzki says:

    Windows 10 on Mac – excellent ๐Ÿ™‚

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars CrimSun says:

    Quite an impressive product. Unfortunately, way out of the range of a hobbyist audience that could have different or more diverse uses for such a piece of equipment.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 1musicsearcher says:

    Can't wait to see the tear down.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Unknownety says:

    Wouldn't pay anything for that poor 3D view.
    The capacitor in the begging isn't really a useful picture. I would like some color from the sides too, not just some stretch in the Z axis. But actual color and stuff. (Having 4 cameras on an angle could probably do that) So one can see if there is any space underneath the package, or asses solder quality and stuff. I would expect that even down at $10 000.
    Tho the zoom looks a bit nice. But there are cheaper microscopes with good zoom, and looking at the working distance, you aren't going to solder under it.

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stonail says:

    YCAI IMHO

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Smith says:

    at first I thought it was an array of cameras at different angles, followed by the construction of 3D images, and now it is not necessary to turn the board that would look at the elements at an angle (oxidized by liquid, soldering defects etc), but in reality it"s just a usb microscope ranging. Everything else is a software whistles flashers.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fixitdaz says:

    microscopic porn lol cheers Dave, love your videos.

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Randy Lott says:

    This is absolutely insane. Awesome video! Now, can I get management to buy this?

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MartelDuV says:

    Great video Dave, well done! That microscope is very impressive; thank you for sharing the video with us! ๐Ÿ˜€

    On a side note: as a software engineer that's now learning some electronics, I'd be very surprised if the software is even close to as expensive to design as the hardware, especially the optics [edit: and Leica is not a slouch when it comes to optics.] I've even written some software that does some of the same image stacking just for fun (which I never finished writing, sadly.)

    On another side note and somewhat on topic for 3D photographic images… if you have anaglyph glasses and would like to see some of my anaglyph photos I can post some links!

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