anyone seen this machine make car parts !

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:51 pm

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=ggvzcGdZsTc

its a amazing machine that can make parts! and to top it off its all american made.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:29 am

cool. i want 2.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:31 am

The printers have been around for the last 10 years... whats new is that 3D scanner. I saw that company at IMTS last year. And like they said, for small parts that's the cat's ass!

You don't need the 3D printer per-say. You could just have regular OLD NC machines and as long as you have some post processors for sad machines, and they can make said parts, then its just a matter of tooling them and running them for the same parts. Right off the bat a 5 axis machine can just about do some parts in one setup.

3k for the scanner is seeming cheap if you all ready own tooling and machines. A light shop would benefit greatly having this scanner if they already have a semi skilled auto cad person on hand.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:12 pm

Yeah, 3k is pretty cheap. I'd buy one except that I really have no commercial purpose for one.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:34 pm

Amazing how many measurements it makes during the scan.

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:54 am

Does it work on blonds and/or redheads?