What's inside?

Analyze roughness and surface texture (full set of ISO and national standards).
Prepare your measured data for analysis by removing outliers, local defects and noise.
Analyze surface geometry: calculate distances, areas, step heights, volumes and much more.
Highlight Increase profilometer range. Use stitching to expand range of all axes (including Z) and overcome instrument limitations.
Extract and analyze regions of interest, then study them in the same way as complete measured surfaces.
View surface topography in high quality 3D and visualize profiles, images, series etc.
Study dimensions and compare with CAD data using advanced contour analysis features.
Carry out advanced surface texture analysis with Particle Analysis, Fourier & Wavelets and 4D analysis (surface evolution analysis over time etc.)
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®.

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

Join over 15,000 Mountains® users worldwide and adopt the surface analysis software trusted by the majority of leading manufacturers.

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

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

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

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MountainsMap®Profile

Includes features for profile roughness and waviness analysis.

  • Suitable for any 2D contact or optical profilometer used in metrology labs or workshops (including confocal chromatic, point auto-focus, auto-focusing, laser triangulation, single point WLI or stylus: inductive, capacitive, etc.)
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MountainsMap® Topography

Includes all MountainsMap® Profile features and adds:

  • Basic analysis of surface data (filter, level, extract area, form removal, distance measurement, step height, basic parameters).
  • Suitable for 3D (“areal”) profilometers based on contact stylus or optical sensors producing topography maps (including stylus profilers, laser triangulation profilers, confocal point sensor profilers, point auto-focus profilers and single-point white light interferometers etc.)
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MountainsMap® Imaging Topography

Includes all MountainsMap® Topography features and adds:

  • Support for file formats from optical profilers including 3D true color images (= topography + image as one studiable set)
  • Stitching of images and surfaces, outlier removal & multifocus reconstruction.
  • Suitable for 3D (“areal”) optical profilers that produce topography maps together with an intensity image and/or a color image, confocal and focus variation microscopes and white-light interferometers.
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MountainsMap® Topography Expert

Includes all MountainsMap® Imaging Topography features and adds advanced tools for applications in surface metrology:

  • Automotive parameters, advanced filters, parameters and other tools for profiles, series of profiles and surfaces including extraction of sub-surfaces, morphological filters, fractal analysis and more.
  • Suitable for any 2D or 3D (“areal”) profilometer.
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MountainsMap® Premium

Includes all MountainsMap® Topography Expert features and adds:

  • Advanced analysis tools (particle analysis, statistics, contour analysis etc.)
  • An exhaustive list of parameters for surface texture analysis
  • Support for time-series of surfaces and freeform surfaces (shells).
  • Suitable for all profile and areal surface measuring instruments.
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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.

Advanced Topography

Advanced studies, parameters & filters for roughness analysis
Advanced Profile

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

Geometric dimensioning of contour profiles and horizontal contours extracted from images
Advanced Contour

Advanced dimensioning and tolerancing, DXF CAD compare, Gothic arch
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Stories

Applications

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.
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2D functional analysis of automotive surfaces

An automotive manufacturer used MountainsMap® to study parameters associated with wear and lubrication.
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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.
Applications

Contour analysis of an automotive component

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

What People Are Saying

Douglas Pysher

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

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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