Any one interested buying scan data of a mini
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Hi all,

we've got a scanning company coming in tomorrow for a work job. I was gonna talk to him about scanning a mini at some point. I know his day rate, which isn't as bad as you'd think, I'm hoping i might be able to talk him into a deal. To be able to help fund it I was wandering if anybody on here would be interested in buying copy's of the stl data, and maybe if people have an idea of what they might want to pay for the data, just so I can work out if it's worth doing. It would just be exterior and maybe basic interior data.

Dan

Id be interested, all depends on the price and quality

Team www.sheepspeed.com Racing

Yes i'd be interested too, price/qual dependant. Group buy?

Edited by adcyork on 13th Nov, 2014.

Just out of intrest what would/could you then do with the info?

You would have a set of 3D stl files of the bodyshell/parts of the body shell to be loaded into a CAD package to allow design of parts around the shell.

Im glad somebody else asked haha

I want to try an use it for some aero work

Team www.sheepspeed.com Racing

Didnt some one sit and draw a mini in some 3d software and make it available?
Im 99% certain they did

Gone to google lol

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Hm might be intrested to im overseas though. Price +shipping? Ps what cad programme would run it. I have cadkey and autocad 2012

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

Like what has been said, you'd use it for making parts, studying aero. You could also use with some other measurements to work out if engines are gonna fit etc. Ideally Id take him a bare shell and subframes which would allow you to use it for serious engineering, but ive only got a driving car to take.

I couldnt say what programs could use it, but scan data comes in as stl data. Its easily converted to obj, as the data is polygon based, but obj's are very heavy. There are plenty of other cad formats thati can do, iges, step being common ones.

Ive done a surface model of a mini before, and there are polygon models out there you can download, but they are useless to me as they're are drawn using naff drawings and photo references.

Our sister company has done some scanning of a Mini.
http://s-can.co.uk/gallery/scanning/mini-b...-cloud-data.jpg

Steve
DSN Classics Ltd
www.dsnclassics.co.uk

Edited by svrdaniels on 14th Nov, 2014.

so it didnt go well today, the head honcho of the scanning company didnt come in, it was one of his employee's. Im assured by my colleagues that head honcho is a really nice guy who would more than likely be helpful, but his employee wasnt really in a position to be able to do favors.

Steve, who's your sister company? would they sell their data?

Have a look at www.s-can.co.uk. Drop James an e-mail.

Steve
DSN Classics Ltd
www.dsnclassics.co.uk

This is one I did at uni, my first cad model, opened it up recently though for this project and is nowhere near for what I need...

Yeah think that was me. Its a .DXF file. Had it at uni and now don't have a computer powerful enough to import it. I used it on solidworks.

Hi everybody!

did anyone ever end up getting the mini scanned for 3D printing?