NextEngine 3D Scanner at Jay Leno's Garage

A broken engine valve is scanned and reproduced right in the garage.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nextengine
• next
• engine
• 3d
• scanner
• laser
• cnc
• jay
• leno

[Spooie]

what the hell if its a laser scanning the surface of objects how does it mold the inner mechanics of the part shown at 5:56

[buffLaser2000]

@Spooie It's not a mold - 3D printing can create inner geometry in a way that no mold or CNC can. So, it just comes down to constructing the geometry in software. Of course, a laser scanner has a similar problem as a CNC - that is, some undercuts and internal structures can't be "seen" by the scanner. Usually you can reconstruct the missing parts pretty easily in software, which you end up doing anyways when you idealize the geometry.

[yryj100]

This is cool, but at $3,000 is too expensive and uses active sensing. I accidentally discovered this company Visualsize that can construct all kinds of 3D models - partial or complete - using color photographs collected from random locations around a 3D object. They do real nice 3D faces too. The technology of Visualsize is really cool and I haven't seen anything like it. It claims to work with any consumer-market digital cameras without special equipment and user training. 

[buffLaser2000]

@yryj100 Interesting system, but there's no comparison when it comes to quality and accuracy. I see lots of errors in the results from visualsize.

[gsp2241]

i would put your dong in there to.

[tgamirov]

I don't think even that technology can handle such fine scanning...

[tweakiepop]

Wow! can you send the information to be 'printed' /constructred on another machine anywhere in the world? Soon maybe parts for satellites could be beamed up into space!

[leonphelps123]

if the car company went out of business, who gives a rats ass who makes the replacement parts.

[jeffrey1004]

@imkosherdillbill its actually funny that you say that, because one day itll be as bad as media piracy is today. its wonderful technology but its scary at the same time. and it is already becoming more readily accessible to the average person as the initial patents have just run out, so cheaper variants are coming onto the market. now days you can literally print out any material as well even metals, mind you you will still have to do a bit of finishing before they are actually usable.

[axxerr]

what is the maximum size of objects to scan?

[theYguy300]

Hey look it's the Crimson Chin!

[ZX2ManDave]

3d replicate Jay Leno's chin. 

[buffLaser2000]

@schlusselmensch Nothing. You can do that too. In fact, that is what you usually do in the end. The plastic part is useful if you want to make a test part first. Sometime you don't need to, but other times it is very useful, especially if you're making extensive changes to the design.

[ZX2ManDave]

Thats right out of Star Trek. Its just like something you would see Scotty or Geordi La Forge working with in engineering on the Enterprise.