Highlights

Analyze roughness and surface texture in accordance with the latest ISO and national standards.
View surface topography in high quality 3D and visualize profiles, images, series etc.
Prepare your measured data for analysis by removing outliers, local defects, noise…
Analyze surface geometry: from distance, area, step height and volume calculation to full dimensional analysis.
Highlight Increase profilometer range. Use stitching to expand range of all axes (including Z).
Extract and analyze regions of interest, then study them in the same way as full measured surfaces.

Key features

Key features

Mountains® is easy-to-use

  • Smart user environment with logical top-down organization of all functions and contextual ribbons
  • Work in a choice of 11 languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PL, BR, JP, CN, KR, RU)
  • Complete reference manual (EN, FR, DE, JP) with illustrations and examples accessible simply by pressing the F1 key

Mountains® turns your surface data into accurate, visual surface analysis reports

  • Turn micro and nano surface data into a metrology report at the click of a button
  • Publish data in PDF, Word® and Excel® formats
  • Export high resolution images and pages

Mountains® helps you work fast and keep track of your work

  • Save time and increase productivity in your data analysis processes
  • Access powerful automation tools (Templates, Minidocs)
  • Fine-tune each analysis step at any time using Mountains® unique hierarchical workflow

Mountains® contains the latest tools for characterizing surfaces in accordance with metrology standards

  • Characterize data in accordance with the latest surface texture parameters defined in ISO standards, ASME B46.1 (USA) standards and other national standards
  • Apply advanced filtering techniques and calculate parameters
  • Study surface texture, geometry and morphology

Mountains® allows you to visualize your data in high quality real-time 3D

  • See every feature of your data
  • Create stunning overlays of images and topography
  • Generate animated views

Mountains® is compatible with any surface measuring instrument including:

  • 3D Optical Profilers, 3D Scanning Profilometers, 2D Profilometers
  • SEM – Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • SPM – Scanning Probe Microscope
  • Raman/FTIR Spectrometers
  • You can also combine data from several different instruments.

Mountains® can analyze multiple types of micro and nano data

  • Profiles (2D) & series of profiles - Surfaces (topography) & series of surfaces
  • Multi-channel data (multilayer images, topography + image etc.)
  • Images (true color or grayscale) & series of images
  • Force curves, series of force curves & force volume
  • Spectrum, hyperspectral cube & more

Select your product

MountainsMap®Profile

Software for 2D contact and non-contact profilometers

  • confocal chromatic, point auto-focus, auto-focusing, laser triangulation, single point WLI.
  • stylus: inductive etc.

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MountainsMap® Scanning Topography

Software for lateral scanning 3D surface profilometers

  • stylus profilers, laser triangulation profilers, confocal point sensor profilers, auto-focus profilers and white light interferometers etc.
  • stylus, chromatic confocal, point autofocus, laser
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MountainsMap® Imaging Topography

Software for 3D optical profilers measuring topography

  • confocal microscopes, interferometers & other 3D optical microscopes and profilers
  • white-light interferometers, confocal, focus variation & other microscopes measuring topography
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Recommended optional modules

The following range of optional modules for advanced and specialized applications is available for MountainsMap® for Profilometry range.

Assess functional performance with a full set of 2D parameters developed by the automotive industry

2D Automotive

Advanced studies, parameters & filters for roughness analysis

3D Advanced Surface Texture

Geometric dimensioning of contour profiles and horizontal contour extracted from images

Contour Analysis module

Automated statistics for multiple data populations, process capability

Statistics module
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Stories

Applications

Understanding how Neolithic objects were manufactured

Tools for measuring surface roughness were used to study stelae and a menhir from the Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic period (around 3000 BC) discovered during the excavation of a prehistoric settlement in the Serra del Mas Bonet in Catalonia (Spain).
Applications

Solar cell pyramids – visualization of 3D surface topography

Pyramid-shaped solar cells are particularly effective for converting energy from the sun into usable energy without the problem of overheating. In a study on solar cell performance enhancement, industrial researchers used MountainsMap® to visualize surface topography in 3D and overlay a color image of solar cells on topography.
Applications

Characterization of metal & alloy defects

In today’s competitive environment, industrial manufacturers continue to invest heavily in tests aoming to improve metal coating performances. In this case study, scratches on a copper surface with tin deposits were measured by a 3D optical profiler.
Applications

Functional analysis of lubrication zones on a motor cylinder

Friction, core and lubrication zones of a motor cylinder were studied in order to investigate opportunities for improving fuel efficiency and thus reduce harmful emissions. MountainsMap® software was used to provide advanced analysis of the volume of the zones studied.

Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Douglas Pysher

Douglas Pysher

Advanced Research Specialist, 3M Electronics Materials Solutions Division

I have been a MountainsMap user since 1999. The technical support staff at Digital Surf have been very helpful over all these years. They have adapted the software to read custom data formats as well as provided application-specific advice on the use of some of the advanced features, such as the motifs analysis. Whenever any issues were found, Digital Surf has always responded quickly and always fixed the problem.

Danielle Macdonald

Danielle Macdonald

Assistant professor, University of Tusla

Using Mountains® software for the quantification of wear traces on stone tools allows us to identify and improve our knowledge of prehistoric human activities.

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