What is Helium Polish?

The Helium Polish diamond scanner is a new device for cutting factories, laboratories and dealers. When a diamond is scanned with Helium an accurate 3D-model is constructed for the angle of inclination and the azimuth. This 3D model allows accurate visualization and realistic images to be produced that can show small distortions of symmetry and to use the output with various systems of appraisal. The program creates user-defined reports including that you can make with whichever selection you choose from the information in the detailed Helium report.

Existing scanners measure facet angles using a silhouette approach. But a facet has more than just an inclination, to properly describe it, we also need to know its orientation - what we call its azimuth. The Helium 3D-model also includes such elements as additional facets.

What is new ?

Helium Polish 5.5 is available for download.

More details...

Helium Polish system photo

Main features

There are two core distinctions between the Helium scanner and other scanner models: 1. Helium scanner determines with high accuracy both the inclination of a facet and its azimuth. 2. Helium 3D model reveals major and minor symmetry features Photo of the diamond Helium model with the photo Photo of the diamond Helium model with the photo Open 3D model* of the scanned diamond with major and minor symmetry features

3D model of round brilliant created by Helium polish is enough to estimate optic and minor symmetry quality. You can export 3D model to DiamCalc software and explore it. DiamCalc allows creating photoreal image of Helium Polish 3D model. The system scanns different distortions, for example girdles with a conical shape, and calculating parameters more correct than manual measurements. Very detailed reports display most of physical features of the polished diamond, including "Minimum Inscribed Circle - MIC", Error in radial roundness, Kozibe, Fish eye angle, Spread, Out of shape, Inclination + Azimuth angle of all the halves, Crown and Pavilion painting type and many other.

View all parameters and illustrations obtained by Helium Polish in the report:

	MS Word Full report for polished brilliant (0,37 ct)
	PDF

Helium Polish creates model of diamonds with any cutting by DLL and ASCII files.

Helium Polish function specification

	HP 8.5 Digital	HP 17 Digital	HP 23 ProDigital	HP 34 Digital	HP 47 ProDigital
Field of view	6.6 x 8.7 mm	13.2 x 17.4 mm	17.7 x 23.6 mm	26.4 x 34.8 mm	35 x 47 mm
Polish size	2.3 - 8.5 mm	4.5 – 17 mm	5 – 23 mm	9 – 34 mm	10 – 47 mm
3D-model accuracy	6.5 microns	13 microns	15 microns	26 microns	30 microns
Projected RBC range	0.05 to 2.00 ct	0.35 to 18.00 ct	0.50 to 45.00 ct	3.00 to 140.00 ct	5.00 to 450 ct
Projected Marquise Range	0.09 to 0.60 ct	0.60 to 4.5 ct	0.90 to 11 ct	5.00 to 35 ct	9.00 to 110 ct
Diamond types	Any Cuts
ReCut option	Available
Print reports	Available, very detailed + user-defined
Warranty	12 months

Hardware specification

	HP 8.5 Digital	HP 17 Digital	HP 23 ProDigital	HP 34 Digital	HP 47 ProDigital
Lens	1 : 1	1 : 2		1 : 4
Camera	Digital, 1360x1024 ССD 2/3"	Digital, 1360x1024 ССD 2/3"	Digital, 1600x1200 ССD 1"	Digital, 1360x1024 ССD 2/3"	Digital, 1600x1200 ССD 1"
Weight	19 kg	25 kg		25 kg
Dimensions L x W x H	70 cm x 16 cm x 21 cm	90 cm x 16 cm x 21 cm		90 cm x 16 cm x 21 cm
Operating Systems	Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
Power consumption	220/110V 50/60Hz 300W

Processing time for diamonds

Method (precision)	Quantity of contours	Time of scan mode, sec	Time of build mode, sec*	Total time, sec
Quick	100	5	3	8
Optimum	200	10	4	14
Accuracy	400	20	6	26
Hi accuracy	800	40	10	50

*Time of work is measured by the diamonds: symmetrical RBC 0.55 ct or asymmetrical RBC 0.37 ct. Time of build mode depends on quantity of dust on the stone surface and mass and cutting form of stones, it can change from time to time within the limits of 5 sec. Time is measured on Helium Polish system HP 8.5 and computer AMD Dual Core 2.4GHz, 2Gb RAM or Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 2.13Ghz, 4Gb RAM.

Helium Polish reports

	MS Word Illustrated report for brilliant			PDF
	MS Word Illustrated report for cushion			PDF

Helium Polish software allows creating and customizing reports for round brilliant, marquise, oval, pear, princess, step cuts, cushion, radiants and any cuts for polished and semipolished diamonds. More examples of reports:

Helium Polish Illustrated reports (one page reports)

• Brilliant
• Marquise
• Oval
• Pear
• Heart
• Cushion
• Princess
• Radiant
• Square radiant
• Emerald
• Triangle
• Any cut

Download

Download Helium Polish
Download Helium Polish templates of reports

Helium Polish FAQ
Helium Polish Highlights (PDF)
Helium Polish system manual (PDF)
Helium reports documentation (PDF)