[Mgs] unusual machine

[Max Heim]

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 at 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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Max Heim
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