[Mgs] unusual machine

[Max Heim]

No, I missed nothing. That is precisely what I meant by "prototyping".

A lot of the commentary gives the impression that this system enables you to
create workable duplicate machine parts. That is not precisely true. What it
does is enable you to produce either the CAD/CNC data or a positive mold for
a machine part -- not the same thing.

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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 10:18 AM, Michael Singleton at mike at sportscarslimited.net wrote:

> 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
>  
> (916)366-0330
> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 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.
>>   ----- Original Message -----