natallica Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 -N8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmyers151 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 We had one of those at school. It was really finicky and I never actually saw it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDawg_43 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Too bad those "printer" are $15k+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natallica Posted July 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Yeah, I think there is a huge section of the process missing. I know for a fact that there is no way you can 'scan' and 'reproduce' moving parts without manipulating the captured data at some point. Just saw it and thought to myself... "Hey, Quest Parts" -N8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Dont Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Too bad those "printer" are $15k+. Nasa don't give a rats tail and it would probably cost over 1 mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NudeLobster Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 widebody mud flaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89PalermoSHP Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 The material those parts are made of is only suitable for a visual prototype. The finish is usually a little choppy too. Unfortunately, anything that would require an injection mold probably will never happen due to the cost. I'm still liking the idea of getting a group of people together and buying old tooling from Mitsubishi although that would probably never happen either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterdrifter Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 INTERCOOLER PIPING! CUSTOM SHIFT KNOBS! OR BEST OF ALL. EMBOSSED "STARQUEST" emblems...! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VICE Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Now how many Millions have been spent into the Research and Developing of this thing...? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuze Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 (edited) My pops had an older one of those in the engineering department at a Pharma company he used to work for. I have a few paintgun parts that were made on it. I just saw an episode of My Classic Car with Jay Leno's garage, he has one that can not only make 3D parts, but also articulated parts like motorcycle chains, things with moving parts, etc out of one block of material. The machine would scan in 3D and then make an exact duplicate. When it comes out, it's like a plastic version of the assembled original. Leno had a bunch of intake manifolds, etc, already made and he said he took one of the models to a caster and had it made out of aluminum for $200. Dude was surprisingly cheap, he has this mega buck machine to make prototypes just so he can get the real parts made for cheap...? LOL Edited July 8, 2011 by Fuze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud81918 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Check out Jay's Garage. He had a thing on these a few years ago and the made a replacement valve for one of his steam cars. The cool thing is you can take a print, test fit it, then use it to sand cast a new piece, using imprint or even loss casting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creakyjoints Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 You can buy one of those for $2500. Not sure how well it works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwolf Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 HAH more than the printer maybe would be that scanning hand tool he used... Im pretty sure i just saw a video of a 427 TT 69 camaro built by some company and they have one of those scanners...and if i remember right the guy claimed that hand held scanner alone is $60k used. O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMeyerhoff Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 pretty damn amazing. Anyone know if its got DARPA money in it? I don't know if the scanner is some sort of lidar, but the software is really neat. Watching it, its basically taking all the scanner's random slices and putting them together like some infinite jigsaw puzzle. We've used lidar at work occasionally to model bridge parts in the shop to make sure they will assemble in the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnementh Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 The material those parts are made of is only suitable for a visual prototype. The finish is usually a little choppy too. Unfortunately, anything that would require an injection mold probably will never happen due to the cost. I'm still liking the idea of getting a group of people together and buying old tooling from Mitsubishi although that would probably never happen either. Actually if you were going to use it as a pattern for injection molding it would be way cheaper to use a clean original part. Way better quality too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89PalermoSHP Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 No one will be doing any injection molding here and Ill put my title on that Its just way too expensive for the amount of parts that would actually sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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