ShopBot owner and
Cut3D customer Brady Watson - braidmeister on the forum - has developed a high quality laser scanning setup that runs on his ShopBot router. He used
Cut3D to machine this project for a customer.
The original hand carved panel was about 12" X 20" & Brady scaled it up to 48" X 80" in the software. The material is 2" thick Trupan Ultralight MDF and It took 3hrs to do the rough out passes and about 17hrs to do the finishing pass.
A 1/2" End mill was used for the roughing toolpath followed by a 3/8" Ball nose for the finishing pass and finally the 1/2" End mill was also used to cut the panel out of the material.
This is a huge project as you can see from the pictures below.
Another interesting use of the software.
Tony
Brady offers a subcontract laser scanning service so if you are looking to reverse engineer 3D products or components I'm sure he'll be interested in quoting you a price. See
http://www.ibild.com/3d.htm