GOM offers complete solutions including hardware, software, technical support and training from one source. As a system provider GOM knows of the importance of integration of its technical measurement solutions into the process chain of the users.

For this purpose, GOM develops open data formats and thus provides a simple exchange or an optimized archiving of measuring and inspection data.

The GOM Inspection Exchange Format allows the open data exchange of 3D inspection elements.

Although there is a demand in the industry for an open handling of measuring and analysis data, there does not yet exist a feasible approach for the exchange of data between the various software packages. To close this gap, GOM offers a solution by creating an appropriate format.

Among others, the GOM Inspection Exchange Format includes primitives, CMM elements, point clouds, sections and touch probe points (no polygon meshes). It is available as of GOM software v6.1.1. This is an open source format and can be implemented without limitations.

The format description of the GOM Inspection Exchange Format is available in English:

• gom_inspection_exchange_format.pdf (v1.03a, 0.4 MB)

You can find several dataset examples here:

• all_exported_element_types.xml (0.4 MB)
• gom_inspection_exchange_format_example_session.exe
  (27.5 MB)

With the GOM 3D format, GOM provides a free data format for 3D datasets (polygon meshes, point clouds and sections). This format is faster in reading and saving data, and is more flexible than the known STL format.

The GOM 3D format is provided since 2002 and today is supported in the established CAD/CAM software packages.

A description of the data format is available in English:

• sp_g3d_en.pdf (0.1 MB)

You can find several dataset examples here:

• all_in_one.g3d (6.1 MB)
• ascii.g3d (1.4 MB)
• features.g3d (0.1 MB)
• point_cloud.g3d (2.1 MB)
• poly_and_feature.g3d (0.5 MB)
• poly_and_section.g3d (0.7 MB)
• sections.g3d (0.3 MB)
• triangles-color.g3d (1.7 MB)