[Mgs] unusual machine

[Michael Singleton]

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.

Mike 


Michael Singleton
Sportscars Ltd
10170 Croydon Way
Suite M
Sacramento, CA 95826
 
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mike at sportscarslimited.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Max Heim
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:02 AM
To: MG List
Subject: Re: [Mgs] unusual machine

Well, yeah, obviously the devices with partially-hidden components were
completely rendered in CAD, then sent to the prototyper. The scanner and the
prototyper are two different systems.

The multiple-part working assemblies are just "show off" pieces, or
proof-of-concept prototypes. Clearly, it is not useful to create a
"functioning" steam engine out of low-impact plastic.

What gets lost in the hype is that this is a prototyping system, not a
manufacturing system. When it has the ability to make parts out of steel (or
at least aluminum), then it would truly be a "copy machine" for car parts.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 3/20/09 8:02 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> Thanks, that did work.  It was posted a couple of weeks ago, possibly 
> somewhere else.  Copying a component part I can believe, but copying 
> an assembly with bearings and goodness knows what based on an external 
> scan is where I suspend my belief.
> 
> PaulH.
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