We finished up digitizing the engine bay of the car today which will now allow fast prototyping of new parts for our cars.

Here is a video of the process and how it works. It will allow you to make parts with rapid prototypes or castings very quickly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozihb-Z3U2s

 

Thats cool Jan.

Is it a purely automated process or does it require manual interaction. Digitized geometry is always the way to go. I suspect you have to have very close tolerances with the data.

 

as you can see with the picture the laser scanner was run over the block and back of the radiator shroud etc. This makes a 3D image in the software which has all of the data points. Over 8million just on the one screen shot
Now it can be put into a program to design parts that will fit perfectly to the attachment points of the block etc

 

Sweet! Its always nice to have a project completed!

 

yes, now it will make all of the next projects MUCH easier

 

Top shelf, this represents how real parts are made!!!

 

whew that's cool.. Guess you got to pay to play in your line of work huh Jan!!!!!

 

nothing is cheap if you want it done right

 

Rapid prototyping FTW.
We had one available for us for our senior design projects last year, they proved very useful.
A friend made a turbine housing shroud for a NASA space suit cooling fan for his projcet.

Its awesome for fluid/flow analysis of new parts too

 

yes it is

 

Now parts will be made more carefully and successfully.

I hope you make better intake manifold, air duct and surprises!!