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Give your profilometer the very best in surface analysis

Used by thousands of engineers, scientists and metrologists worldwide, MountainsMap® software is the gold standard in 2D and 3D surface texture analysis and metrology for use with profilometers and other surface measuring instruments.
Visualize, correct and analyze profiles and surfaces - Filter roughness & waviness according to ISO 16610 - Calculate ISO profile and areal parameters - Extract functional and metrological information from your data using advanced tools: Fourier analysis, particle analysis, step height, form fitting, wavelet filters, fractal analysis...

What’s inside MountainsMap®

Roughness and ISO parameters

Analyze roughness and surface texture parameters according to ISO 25178, ISO 4287, ISO 13565, etc.

Data correction

Prepare your measured data for analysis by removing outliers, local defects and noise.

Surface geometry

Analyze surface geometry: calculate distances, areas, step heights, volumes and much more.

Surface stitching

Increase profilometer range. Use stitching to expand range of all axes (including Z) and overcome instrument limitations.

Sub-surface analysis

Extract and analyze regions of interest, then study them in the same way as complete measured surfaces.

High quality 3D visualization

View surface topography in high quality 3D and visualize profiles, images, series etc.

Advanced contour analysis

Apply complete geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) analysis. Fit elements, calculate deviations and dimensions, compare with CAD models.

Particle analysis and more

Carry out advanced surface texture analysis with Particle Analysis, Fourier & Wavelets and 4D analysis (surface evolution analysis over time etc.)

Correlative analysis

Perform correlative analysis and co-localize data from any profiler or microscope all with the same software.

Benefits

Rely on Digital Surf’s extensive experience in surface metrology and analysis. The majority of national metrology institutes trust the precision of Mountains®.

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Keep track of analysis steps applied to data, revert back to any step in the process with automatic recalculation of all dependent steps.

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Join over 20,000 Mountains® users worldwide and adopt the surface analysis software trusted by the majority of leading manufacturers.

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Easily use comments in your reports, save your work in PDF, Word and Excel formats and share it with colleagues, students, clients etc.

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Work in your own language and get help with using MountainsMap® from our international support team.

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Save time and gain in productivity: save analysis sequences and reapply automatically to large batches of data.

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	MountainsMap® Premium	MountainsMap® Expert	MountainsMap® Imaging Topography	MountainsMap® Topography	MountainsMap® Profile
Instrument compatibility	All profile and areal measuring instruments	All profile and areal measuring instruments	Areal optical profilers producing topography maps together with an intensity image and/or a color image Confocal microscopes Focus variation microscopes White light interferometers	Suitable for areal optical or contact stylus profilometers producing topography maps Areal contact profilometers Scanning single point optical profilometers	2D contact or optical profilometers
Advanced analysis tools (Profilometry)
Automotive parameters, advanced filters
Basic analysis of surface data
Exhaustive list of parameters for surface texture analysis
Profile roughness and waviness analysis
Stitching of images and surfaces, outlier removal & multifocus reconstruction.
Support for file formats from optical profilers
Support for time-series of surfaces and freeform surfaces (shells).

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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.

Contour Analysis Module

Basic geometric dimensioning & tolerancing of contour profiles and horizontal contours extracted from images, surfaces etc.

Particle Analysis Module

A comprehensive toolset for detecting and analyzing particles, pores, grains, islands etc. on structured surfaces

Advanced Profile Module

Advanced profile filtering, fractal and Fourier analysis, statistical analysis of series of profiles

Advanced Topography Module

Advanced studies, parameters & filters for 3D (“areal”) surface texture analysis

Stories

Characterizing antimicrobial surface topography

A group of researchers from the University of Ferrara, Italy, defined a general procedure to characterize new materials obtained by anodic oxidation. These types of surfaces, due to their nano-porous structure, act as reservoirs of silver ions which in turn confer antimicrobial properties to the surfaces.

3D profilometry for quality control of pharmaceutical tablets

The profilometer manufacturer Nanovea conducted a study of different pharmaceutical tablets in order to study their surface roughness. With the use of a profilometer, they measured the average surface roughness of three different tablet surfaces. The data obtained was then analyzed with Nanovea’s Professional 3D software based on Mountains® technology.

Assessing the tribological interface of mechanical parts

Researchers at the Luleå University of Technology and Scania in Sweden, recently investigated how surface topography influences oil film formation in tribological interfaces pertinent to gears. The study was oriented towards the improvement of fuel economy and sustainability. Jonny Hansen, a member of the research team, explains how Mountains® software was used to help achieve results.

Detecting tooth enamel erosion

Researchers in tissue engineering & biophotonics at King’s College London (UK) seeking to attain better understanding of tooth enamel erosion recently applied its methods to bring to light micro-scale surface changes over time.

2D functional analysis of automotive surfaces

An automotive manufacturer used Mountains® software to study parameters associated with wear and lubrication.

Quality control of plastic graining on dashboard

A French car manufacturer performed quality control of automotive dashboard material (plastic). Measured data was checked to be in compliance with ISO 25178 parameters.

Contour analysis of an automotive component

In the automotive industry, engineers used Mountains® to check compliance of components with nominal form.

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).

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. Mountains® software was used to provide advanced analysis of the volume of the zones studied.

Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Douglas Pysher

Advanced Research Specialist, 3M Electronics Materials Solutions Division

I have been a Mountains^® 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

Assistant professor, University of Tusla

Mountains® software is an exceptional tool for the analysis of surface characteristics on archaeological artifacts. I use this software for the quantification of wear traces on stone tools, allowing us to identify and improve our knowledge of prehistoric human activities. The software is user-friendly and Digital Surf has excellent customer support, making Mountains® a fundamental tool for my research.

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