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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.

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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 15,000 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 2D (profile) measuring instruments All 3D (areal) surface measuring instruments	All 2D (profile) measuring instruments All 3D (areal) surface measuring instruments	3D (areal) optical profilers producing topography maps together with an intensity image and/or a color image Confocal profilers Focus variation microscopes White light interferometers	3D (areal) contact stylus profilometers producing topography maps Stylus profilers Laser triangulation profilers Confocal point sensor profilers Point auto-focus profilers Single-point white light interferometers	2D contact profilometers and 2D optical profilometers Confocal chromatic profilers Point auto-focus profilers Auto-focusing profilers Laser triangulation profilers Single point white light interferometers Stylus profilers: inductive, capacitive, etc.
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 profiles
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.

Scale-Sensitive Analysis

Implements a multi-scale analysis based on length-scale or area-scale analyses (formerly in Sfrax software)

SEM Topography

3D reconstruction from 2 or 4 SEM images, instant 3D enhancement of single SEM images & semi-automatic image colorization

SPM Extension

Read AFM/SPM file formats, work with multi-channel SPM images, correct data acquisition errors

Colocalization

Colocalize data from different instrument types and carry out correlative studies

Stories

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.

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.

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 Mountains® to visualize surface topography in 3D and overlay a color image of solar cells on topography.

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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