They don't. The video editing mashed-up two different processes.
One, the scanner scans a simple, single object, and the prototyper
reproduces it in plastic.
Two, the prototyper pops out an multi-part assembly, but this was NOT
scanned -- it was entered as CAD data. Notice that they did not show this
item being scanned. It was sloppiness on the part of the producer that this
point was not clarified; but, as you might have noticed, it was all kind of
semi-scripted, "reality TV" style.
on 3/21/09 2:48 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> I don't have a problem in component scan data being sent to any number of
> machines whether for prototyping in plastic or production in metal, there is
> nothing new in that, it's been used to reproduce human skulls in plastic e.g.
> of mummies or decomposed bodies for facial reconstruction and Formula 1 parts
> production for some years. What I don't see is how the beams can scan inside
> assembled bearings and meshed gears and the like.
>
> PaulH.
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> What you may have missed was the comment that the piece, once approved of,
> could be sent to a CNC machining center, as a program, and manufaactured
> from that. Or, if needed as a casting the part could be used to create a
> casting mold.
>
> I think that it is a really neat concept.
--
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'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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