On Jul 6, 12:16*pm, harry wrote:
On Jul 6, 4:06*pm, "Bob-tx" No Spam no contact wrote:

If this is real, and it does appear to be,
it will absolutely boggle your mind.

It brings questions to mind like how much does
the equipment cost, how strong is the product,
and how much does a finished product cost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw

Bob-tx

I have my doubts about complex mechanisms. Ergo it's ********.
How, for example, was the machine/"scanner" able to determine the
nature of the thread inside the wrench?

No-one could determine that without dismantling the wrench first.
Ergo, niether could the machine.

Ergo, ********.

Possibly could be done for simple, none hollow, components.

But even then scanning would have to be done from all six sides, and
the object would have to be securely fixed as would the scanner.

So as displayed, total ********, only dopey Americans would be taken
in.

Do you really think that they showed you the entire process?

Do you really think that they just threw the wrench on a flatbed
scanner, sent the image to the printer and POOF! out came a
functioning wrench?

I had a inlay for a molar made in the dentist's office right before my
eyes. Check out this video. It shows a detail account of the "imaging"
process. With multiple pictures stitched together by the computer,
there's no reason to think that the "internal threads" (which, by the
way, are just the opposite of the readily viewable external threads)
couldn't be figured out by the computer and sent to the printer.

What's not shown here is the operator's ability to alter the "scanned"
images to add parts that might not have been picked up by the camera.
A key fact when you think about the "internal threads".

http://www.cereconline.com/cerec/demo.html

Just for fun, this video includes the milling process which was done
in the same room where I was sitting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlfiSCqAEg