Press releases


MountainsMap® 6 - instrument-oriented solutions for surface texture analysis

Besançon, France, 7 May 2010. Digital Surf announced that MountainsMap® 6 will be released this summer 2010. With an unequalled range of dedicated standard solutions for all types of surface metrology instrument, native 64-bit code and optimal exploitation of multi-core technology, the new software provides unprecedented surface analysis power. In addition it includes enhanced interactivity, higher quality imaging, new advanced analysis features and more flexible report generation.

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Digital Surf – 20 years of continuous innovation

Besançon, France, 14 November 2009. Digital Surf, the solutions provider for micro and nano-surface metrology, was incorporated on 14 November 1989 and is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company has a history of continuous innovation in surface metrology. Its first software for 2D surface analysis was released in 1990, quickly followed by the release of 3D software in 1991. Today Digital Surf is an established B2B partner for many leading instrument manufacturers whose names read like a Who's Who of surface metrology.

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New Mountains® 5.1 available for free upgrade

Besançon, France, 1 September 2009 - Mountains® 5.1 contains powerful new features for 3D optical microscopy, dimensional analysis of 2D component geometry, dynamic statistics for near-line monitoring of surface parameters, and new Cpk capability parameters. In addition, the new version exploits the latest multi-core and 64-bit technology to accelerate analysis and also includes video tutorials with audio and subtitles to minimize the learning curve for first time users.

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New MitakaMap software for Mitaka Kohki's NH-series of Laser Probe 3D measuring equipment

Tokyo, Japan and Besançon, France - 12 May 2009. Mitaka Kohki and Digital Surf announced that MitakaMap surface analysis software based upon Digital Surf's Mountains Technology will be supplied with NH-3SP Laser Probe 3D Measuring Equipment and other NH-series instruments from Mitaka Kohki.

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Mountains Advanced Contour - new module for the dimensional analysis of form and geometry

Besançon, France, 19 March 2009 - The Mountains Surface Analysis Business Unit of Digital Surf, announced the release of a new software module, Advanced Contour, which is part of the Mountains surface analysis software suite. The new module will be shown at the Control International Trade Show for Quality Assurance at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre, 5-8 May 2009.

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LNE and Digital Surf sign a cooperation agreement relating to nanometrology

Trappes and Besançon, France, 22 January 2009 ? The LNE, the French National Metrology Institute, and Digital Surf, the surface metrology solutions provider, announced that they have signed a technical cooperation agreement. The LNE will join Digital Surf's Mount Shasta programme with internationally reputed laboratories that use Digital Surf's MountainsMap® surface imaging and analysis software.

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Digital Surf Mountains® Technology available for the Olympus OLS3100 LEXT

Hamburg and Besançon, 5 August 2008 ? Olympus and Digital Surf have announced an agreement whereby Olympus will supply users of its LEXT OLS3100 confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) with 3D surface texture and image analysis software based upon Digital Surf's Mountains technology. The LEXT OLS3100 provides non-contact metrology and has earned an excellent reputation for its high resolution and versatile observation of all types of samples.

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François Blateyron awarded French metrology prize

Courbevoie, France, 17 June 2008. François Blateyron, R&D director at Digital Surf, received a 2008 Normalisation Trophy 2008 from the UNM, the French union for normalisation in the domain of mechanical engineering, for his work on surface metrology on French and ISO standards committees.

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New 4D module in Mountains® software analyses surface evolution

Besançon, France, 4 June 2008. Metrological analysis of the evolution of a 3D surface in a 4th dimension is now possible using the new 4D software module in Mountains Technology version 5 from Digital Surf.

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ICMAB and Digital Surf sign cooperation agreement relating to surface analysis

Bellatera, Spain and Besançon, France, 13 March 2008. ICMAB - CSIC, the advanced materials research institute at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Digital Surf, announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement falls within the framework of Digital Surf's Mount Shasta technical cooperation programme with internationally reputed laboratories engaged in scientific research and already using Digital Surf's MountainsMap® surface analysis software.

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New µsurf surface analysis software for Nanofocus µsurf 3D topometers

Oberhausen, Germany and Besançon, France, 20 December 2007. Nanofocus and Digital Surf announced that µsurf analysis surface analysis software based upon Digital Surf's Mountains technology has been integrated into Nanofocus's µsurf 3D topometers and µscan profilometers. The µsurf 3D topometer from Nanofocus is used by laboratories that measure and test 3D technical surfaces with micro- and nano-dimensional structures.

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New Mountains® version 5 released

Besançon, France, 3 April 2007. Digital Surf announced version 5 of its software technology for the analysis of micro- and nano-geometry and 2D/3D surface texture. A pre-release will be shown for the first time in public on the Digital Surf stand at the Control international trade show, 8-11 May 2007, at Sinsheim in Germany. The definitive release will be shown at Quality Expo, 25-27 September 2007, at Chicago, USA.

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