This Is Just To Cool!
 

Watch**) The real meat of this video is at 2:50.
I saw this at fordfe.com

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105...a4377d3bfd6c81

Ralphy


https://www.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm

http://www.dimensionprinting.com/

That is incredible! I have heard of this technology for making dental crowns, but hadn't seen it in action yet.

Thanks for posting!

Ralph:
Nice find!

Bob

holy crap.......for 5k i can scan and import an iges file to my cam software........did i say holy crap.......

Dose not play for me:CRY: and would not play for me at the FE site when I tried there!

Mike Z

Try this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvzcGdZsTc

Ralphy,
That works, Thank you.;)

Prototyping technology is the way to go if you have access to the equipment. I'm pretty fortunate to have had access to these types of machines since the late 80's.

On my Carbon Car all of the parts I had to machine where first built on a rapid prototype machine to verify fit and function.
Currently my workplace we have 3 different types of machines.
A Dimension as seen on the Leno video, and a Fortus will build me ABS or Polycarbonate parts. http://www.stratasys.com/
The third is called an Objet 350 http://www.objet.com/ Besides plastic parts it can make rubber as well. Can you say bumper grommets on demand?

While these are for plastics or rubber there are other machines that will build parts out of metals, epoxies, and even paper.

With the quotes I get for machining 1 or 2 parts it is way too high to have the design not work. The final parts are pretty strong. As an example after designing a T5 transmission mount with a polyurethane bushing in it I was able to install it in the car for fitting and left it holding the trasnmission for a few weeks while the "real" part was being machined from my verified 3D CAD files.

It was interesting that Leno mentioned the English cars as my 2 Triumphs have quite a few parts keeping them on the road with Rapid Prototype parts made over the years.

If I only had access to a scanner......

Later,
Richard

the scanner is the holy crap of the equation, there are as you mentioned the equipment out there since the 80's but the cost of that equipment is out of reach for a small business such as myself. the scanner costs 3 grand i would bet your cad software has an investment of over 15 grand in it by itself. by going to the website i found i can have vectorized solid model for 5 grand. that is the bomb. import into cam and i'm making chips. dayum....one good job will pay the freight....

Wow! I'm pretty impressed. That's a Star Trek Replicater.

[quote=FWB;1034573]the scanner is the holy crap of the equation, there are as you mentioned the equipment out there since the 80's but the cost of that equipment is out of reach for a small business such as myself.[/QUOTE

I gotta agree the scanner is a key ingredient. Not that long ago I was looking at a hand held unit that allowed you to scan without a stand allowing anything from a washer to a jet engine intake to be scanned. We did a mini Cooper dash. Problem is the additional software that was required to convert the point cloud to usable surfaces. That 3k scanner was a deal but the "other" software required was another 15k!
If the scanner shown in the video is turnkey at 3k it's like you said it would pay for itself fast! Definatly worth a bit more investigation.
Richard