OTE_TheMissile
Alibre Super User
Recently Management here has been hinting at expanding past our current market of cruiser motorcycle accessories and getting into UTV's/side-by-sides. Our production manager has a Polaris RZR XP1000 that he brought in and had myself and our shop "old guy" knock our a few small pieces for; tube clamps for LED light mounts, a bolt-on front winch hook point, etc. etc., little odds and ends things.
He tells me eventually he wants to get us into making stuff like tubular front bumpers with integrated winch mounts, which, looking ahead, is going to be a physically huge welding project for us with a lot of oddly-positioned points of contact. So now talk has turned to acquiring a 3D scanner that we can just wave in front of the car and get a model of all the buggy's factory brackets and holes and chassis parts. Otherwise we'd be relying on our traditional method of taking a thousand measurements, hacking together a prototype, and sticking it on the thing to see how far off we were. That method's done us just fine for making things like highway pegs and handlebar risers for bikes, but a front bumper for a dune buggy is just too big and complex to make that viable.
I didn't know anything about 3D printing until Management bought me one, I know even less about 3D scanners other than they seem to either cost around $300 or $10,000 with nothing in-between and no clear explanation what the difference is. So TL;DR, does anybody on here work with 3D scans in Alibre and can make some suggestions?
He tells me eventually he wants to get us into making stuff like tubular front bumpers with integrated winch mounts, which, looking ahead, is going to be a physically huge welding project for us with a lot of oddly-positioned points of contact. So now talk has turned to acquiring a 3D scanner that we can just wave in front of the car and get a model of all the buggy's factory brackets and holes and chassis parts. Otherwise we'd be relying on our traditional method of taking a thousand measurements, hacking together a prototype, and sticking it on the thing to see how far off we were. That method's done us just fine for making things like highway pegs and handlebar risers for bikes, but a front bumper for a dune buggy is just too big and complex to make that viable.
I didn't know anything about 3D printing until Management bought me one, I know even less about 3D scanners other than they seem to either cost around $300 or $10,000 with nothing in-between and no clear explanation what the difference is. So TL;DR, does anybody on here work with 3D scans in Alibre and can make some suggestions?
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