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Originally Posted by scootermcrad
Man! I really need to take a day off and come by the shop. Nice work! It's really looking great!
When going from CAD (SolidWorks??) to prototype on the bumper stuff, are you RP'ing the bumper in sections, or did you actually have a mold made and lay it up?
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Thank you.
We go from solid model to a full scale machined-foam part, to use as a positive plug for mold creation. This plug gets touched up by hand using the sculpted part as reference, then handed off to the mold-maker for surfacing. He then creates the mold from it to produce the final part.
Here's an example of this process with the rear quarters:
machined plug before touch up
and the plug during machining
For the bumpers, we'll print critical contour sections in 1/2 scale and a 1/8 scale complete bumper to check proportion and shape before committing to full scale foam. (Hopefully this will reduce the 'touch up' time after machining.)
We learn as we go!
