L-733 Precision Triple Scan® Laser

Hamar Laser’s L-733 Precision Triple Scan^® Laser Alignment System is a highly accurate and versatile alignment tool. This powerful yet easy-to-use system is ideal for quickly and accurately checking and fixing the geometry of most lower-accuracy machining centers and excels at many other demanding applications. Our Ultra-Precision Series L-743 and Precision Series L-733 are the only alignment systems in the world to offer three automatically rotating laser planes with the extreme high accuracy needed for today’s ever-tightening tolerances. This creates a powerful tool that not only measures surface flatness, squareness and straightness, but fixes complex alignment problems in a fraction of the time needed with conventional methods.

System Highlights

Fast: Data updates in real time to align boring mills, gantries and machining centers up to 70% faster than traditional methods or laser interferometers.
Easy: Measures the three main axes of a machine at the same time for flatness, straightness and squareness, and checks any additional axes for parallelism usually with the one setup.
Accurate: Precision laser planes have a flatness of 2 arc seconds (.00012 in/ft or 0.01 mm/m) in a 180º/360° sweep and 1 arc second (.00006 in/ft or 0.005 mm/m) in a 90º sweep.
Versatile: Ideal for nearly all types of lower-accuracy machine tools, as well as many other applications including aircraft assembly, automotive transfer lines, injection molding machines, roll alignment and laser and water-jet cutting machines.
Smart: Powerful Windows-based alignment software, combined with advanced wireless interfaces, makes collecting and analyzing alignment data fast and easy.

FEATURES

Key Features

3 continuously rotating laser planes with operational range of 100 ft (30.5 meters) in radius.
Laser planes flat to 2 arc seconds (.00012 in/ft or 0.01 mm/m) in 180º/360° sweep and 1 arc second (.00006 in/ft or 0.005 mm/m) in 90º sweep.
Planes are mutually square up to 2 arc seconds (.00012 in/ft or 0.01 mm/m).
Includes L-123 Pitch/Roll/Yaw base with coarse adjustments.
Standard Targets: A-1519 2.4ZB Wireless Target with ±.5 in. (12.7 mm) Measuring Range and .00002 in. (0.00058 mm) Resolution.
Backlit levels accurate to 3 arc seconds (.000018 in/ft or 0.015 mm/m). Upgrade to Split-Prism levels for accuracy to .00006 in/ft (0.005 mm/m).
Typical setup time 20 minutes or less.
Battery or AC powered.

APPLICATIONS

If you do not see your application listed, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We will be more than happy to provide a solution that’s right for your unique alignment problem.

Applications

Aerospace

Aircraft Interior Alignment (Storage Bins, Galleys, etc.)
Body-to-Body Join Assembly
Floor Beam Alignment
Jig/Tooling Calibration and Leveling
Seat-Track Alignment
Wing-to-Body Joining Alignment

Fabricating Machinery

Laser-Cutting Machines
Routers
Saw Mills
Tube-Bending Machines
Water-Jet Machines
Woodworking Machines

Fabrication Alignment

Agricultural Machinery Assembly
Large Construction Machinery Assembly
Locomotive Assembly
Truck Bed Assembly
Wind Turbine Flange Parallelism

Machine Tools – Lower Accuracy

Floor and Spar Mills
Gantries
Horizontal and Vertical Boring Mills
Horizontal and Vertical Machining Centers
Large-Lathe Beds
Machine Tool Assembly and Calibration
Roll-Forming Machines
Transfer-Line Wing Bases
Vertical and Horizontal Presses
Vertical-Turning Lathes (VTLs)

Plastics

Blown-Film Lines Roll Alignments
Film Lines Roll Alignments
Injection Molding Machines

Quality Control

Checking Flatness, Straightness, Squareness and Parallelism of Large Fixtures and Parts

Roll Alignment

Aluminum Mills
Continuous Casting Machines
Textile Mills

Ship Building

Gun Bearing Alignment
LNG Tanker Hull Construction
Section Alignment and Layout

DETAILS

L-733 Precision Triple Scan® Laser Alignment System

We designed the L-733 Precision Triple Scan® Laser to bring the innovative power of our high-end machine tool geometry lasers to lower accuracy applications like water jet and laser cutting machines, steel and textile mill roll alignments and large fabrication alignment. It has all of the timesaving and useful features of the L-743, with a few minor exceptions: lower accuracy, lower price and a medium adjustment base.

Usually Only Requires One Setup

Like the L-743, the L-733 offers 3 automatically rotating laser planes that not only MEASURE but it also FIX alignment errors in a fraction of the time needed with conventional methods. In most cases, it can align a machining center with only one setup.

High Accuracy at 30% Lower Price

With a price that is 30% lower, the L-733 is an affordable alternative to our high-accuracy machine tool alignment lasers. It features 2 vertical and 1 horizontal continuously rotating laser planes, a pitch, roll and yaw (medium) adjustment base, for setting the laser planes parallel to reference points, 2-arc-second level vials and a powerful magnet for maximum stability.

One of the critical components of any laser system is the straightness or flatness of the laser beam or plane, as this is the reference from which the measurements are made. The 733’s laser planes are flat (in a 360° sweep) and square to 2 arc seconds (0.00012″/ft or 0.01 mm/M). In a 90° sweep, the laser planes are flat to 1 arc second.

Measure Dimensions with New Wireless Targets

Another critical component of laser alignment systems is the resolution of the targets. This determines how close the measurements can be made.

For higher accuracy applications, our wireless targets (A-1519-2.4ZB and A-1520-2.4ZB) is an ideal alternative. The targets have up to a 1″ (25 mm) measuring range, resolutions as low as 0.00002″ (0.0005 mm) and can be used up to 100 feet (30.5 meters) from the readout (R-1357-2.4ZB), which uses a Ruggedized Trimble Android PDA and color software to display up to five targets simultaneously.

Alignment Applications

For alignments with tolerances of 0.00015″/ft or (0.01 mm/M) or greater, the L-733 can quickly measure and correct machine geometry with minimal setup for the following applications:

Machining centers (HBM, VBM, VTL, VMC, HMC, gantries, surface grinders)
Water-jet and laser-cutting machines
Vertical and horizontal press alignment
Roll alignment (rubber, steel, textile and lower accuracy film lines)
Aircraft assembly (seat track alignment, setting water, butt and station planes, wing-to-body and body-to-body join alignment, etc.)
Saw mills
Leveling machine beds and ways
Checking the alignment of large bearing surfaces and fabrications
Measuring and aligning:
- The flatness of almost any horizontal or vertical surface (squares, frames, ways, flanges, circles, etc.) or axes.
- The straightness of vertical and horizontal axes
- The squareness of any vertical machine axis or surface to a horizontal axis or surface
- The squareness of any 2 vertical surfaces or axes
- The parallelism of vertical or horizontal surfaces, even if those surfaces are 100 feet (30.5 meters apart)
- Way twist and parallelism between vertical surfaces
- Way twist and parallelism between horizontal surfaces
Checking plumb of a vertical surface up to 100 feet (30.5 meters)
Measuring surfaces up to 200 feet (61 meters) long with 1 setup

Color Alignment Software

For wireless recording and analyzing alignment data, our color, 3-D flatness and squareness analysis software, Plane5 or Machine Tool Geometry, simplifies and streamlines the data analysis process. Plane5 can measure up to 7 different surfaces in one project setup file and present a color, 3-D graph of the flatness and squareness analysis for each surface. Machine Tool Geometry software can measure and analyze 4 different machining center-type machines. And you can add your own machine configuration as well!.