Neptune Introduction

Lumafield Support Documentation

Introduction

Getting Started

This guide will walk you through the process of running your first scan on your Neptune Standard, High Power, or Microfocus CT scanner.

Running Your First Scan

Analyzing your first scan

Voyager Organizations are structured to help teams collaborate effectively while maintaining appropriate access controls. Here's how membership and roles work within the system.

Members & Roles

Joining an Organization

Scanner Modules

Analysis Modules

Glossary

Summary of monthly updates across the platform.

Monthly Highlights

Detailed version release notes for Voyager.

Voyager Release Notes

Voyager Introduction

How to manage and navigate your data in Lumafield Voyager

The Dashboard

Bulk selection & actions on the Voyager Dashboard.

Bulk Actions

How to use workspaces and grant access to your data as a manager of your organization.

The Manager Dashboard

Easily store, visualize, and analyze data from any CT scanner in Voyager. Make your volumetric data and analyses accessible to your broader team, anywhere, at any time.

Uplink

An introduction to the features and workflows of Lumafield's software.

Video Tutorial - Analyzing CT Scans with Lumafield Voyager

How to generate a mesh on a multi-material part.

Multi-Material Meshing

ISO-50 thresholding and mesh snapping reduce dimensional uncertainty.

ISO-50 Mesh Generation & Dimension Point Snapping

Reverse Engineering Workflow

 Step-by-step instructions on how to use the ROI tool.

How to Author a Region of Interest (ROI)

How to use inspection planes to dimension your scans.

Inspection Planes

Use the revolving slice tool to inspect cylindrical or spherical objects.

Revolving Slice Planes

Use the custom slice tool to better view off-normal features.

Custom Slice Planes

Extract and expand a specific range of attenuation values with renormalization to perceive greater detail in multi-material scans.

Renormalization

Use the mesh tool to extract a surface and prepare a mesh for use in Voyager or for .stl download.

Mesh Tool

Mesh smoothing can remove unwanted noise without having a big impact on accuracy.

Mesh Smoothing

Use CAD comparison to quantify dimensional deviations between a scan and a CAD model, or even between different scans.

CAD to Scan Comparison

Use the porosity feature to quantify enclosed volumes.

Porosity Analysis

How to use inclusion analysis to detect, quantify, and analyze material inclusions, foreign debris, and imperfections in your scans.

Inclusion Analysis

Use the crack detection tool to identify and analyze cracks, leaks, surface pits, and surface-connected voids.

Crack Detection & Analysis

Use Wall Thickness Analysis to measure and evaluate a part’s walled components and structural integrity. Identify defect areas, quantify thickness uniformity, and optimize material usage.

Wall Thickness Analysis

What is the Import function, and what is it used for?

Import Tool

How to use the Reconstruction function to correct doubling by applying a manual correction.

Axis of Rotation Correction

Use BHC to correct for beam hardening artifacts and reduce streaking artifacts in the Voyager software.

Beam Hardening Correction

How to use Bookmarks to save views and communicate information.

Bookmarks

Create high-quality visualizations of your scan data that are easy to share, plugs seamlessly into presentations, and enhances marketing assets with the render tool.

Render Tool

Create dynamic visualizations of your scan data using the animation tool.

Animation Tool

 Showcase product quality and engineering excellence by embedding your scans into your webpage

Embedded Voyager

Voyager is making collaboration easier by introducing the ability to request access to projects.

Request Access

Slow 3D graphics in Voyager? Make sure your Windows PC is utilizing the best of its hardware.

Browser graphics optimization for Windows

Managing your projects in the Cloud and On Prem

Storage Management

Understanding storage and project management within Voyager on your cloud system.

Cloud Project Limits and Storage

Understanding storage and project management within Voyager on your On-Prem system.

On-Prem Project Limits and Storage

Restart your on-prem system to resolve common issues

On-Prem Voyager Restart Instructions

How to startup & initialize your Neptune Scanner.

Neptune Machine Initialization

How to fixture your parts to get the most out of your scans.

Fixturing Quickstart

Getting started with your Neptune Microfocus.

Neptune Microfocus Quickstart

How to use the offset motion axis to scan new objects.

Expanded Scan Volume Quickstart

Practical Guidance for X-ray CT Scanning Electronics.

Scanning Electronics Quickstart

The digital version of the manual that ships with every Neptune.

Neptune User Manual

For additional reliability, Neptune may be plugged into a UPS. Here are some options that Lumafield has tested.

What UPSes are compatible with Neptune?

The manual for conducting Neptune Scanner interlock and indicator functional tests.

Neptune Interlock and Indicator Functional Tests

Triton Introduction

Recipes Intro

Use scan recipes to achieve repeatable scans and inspection routines for batch and high volume scanning.

Scan Recipes

Analysis Recipes are Lumafield's solution to automated scan processing.

Neptune Quickstart

Neptune Hardware

Neptune Introduction