Pattern or mould making foam?

[daedalusminos]

If you're just scanning a physical part that has been made and fits in the frame so you can extract the surface and print it (I appreciate that's wildly oversimplified), I'm not sure I see the necessity to scan the envelope.

That's not what I was implying....you scan the interface locations (air box port and inlet positions) and the obstacles (frame etc) and CAD model the duct ready for 3D printing. You then end up with a perfect fitting duct without cutting any cardboard or foam.

 

[indykid]

That's not what I was implying....you scan the interface locations (air box port and inlet positions) and the obstacles (frame etc) and CAD model the duct ready for 3D printing. You then end up with a perfect fitting duct without cutting any cardboard or foam.

You also need someone capable of the reasonably complex modelling once you have the surfaces. I don't want to sell Cato short, but I get the feeling he's more solid foam than Solidworks.

 

[Cato]

You also need someone capable of the reasonably complex modelling once you have the surfaces. I don't want to sell Cato short, but I get the feeling he's more solid foam than Solidworks.

How dare you!

What's solidworks?

 

[Agroshield]

The foam item has the big advantage that not only will it fit in the space, but you will see what is necessary to install (and secure) the finished part.

Designing a part, in-situ, from a 3D scan and then finding that the only way to install it is before the airbox but that you cannot put the airbox screws in with the part installed, may lead to rude words.

A foam buck is easily sliced into measurable cross sections, making the 3D modelling a lot easier.