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bikerdude666 · 8th April 2020, 16:01

I can’t remember what it was, but I remember seeing a programme where they wanted a wheel, and they went to a company that 3D scanned them.
They said they’re were cataloguing all the wheels, so there were 3D files of them. The scanner had something like 16 lasers in it and cost around £250,000. They’d scan the wheel, 3D print a sample, then use the 3D printed sample to make a mould and then cast it. Or use the file to CNC cut it out of a block.

8th April 2020, 16:01	#9
bikerdude666 Posted a thing or two Jaguar Xe diseasal Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Little Stanion, Corby Posts: 1,922 Thanks: 363 Thanked 390 Times in 241 Posts	I can’t remember what it was, but I remember seeing a programme where they wanted a wheel, and they went to a company that 3D scanned them. They said they’re were cataloguing all the wheels, so there were 3D files of them. The scanner had something like 16 lasers in it and cost around £250,000. They’d scan the wheel, 3D print a sample, then use the 3D printed sample to make a mould and then cast it. Or use the file to CNC cut it out of a block.