Shadow boards, tool-control foam, custom foam inserts, and shadow foam are lean manufacturing organizational systems designed to store tools or equipment with clear visual identification of each item’s designated location. These systems often rely on cut-outs that match the shape of individual tools, making it easy to detect when something is missing. Creating accurate silhouettes and matching depths for these inserts is typically a slow and manual process.

The Planar system streamlines this by scanning parts in 2D and generating a height map of their upper surfaces. It can export the resulting data as a 2D DXF file for simple profile outlines or as an extruded STL file, capturing both the shape and the depth required for cutting foam inlays.

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