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Originally Posted by mgatepi
I would think utilizing a GOM or FARO style laser scanner somehow communicating with a CNC machining center is what you are talking about. Laser scanners are extremely accurate, we actually have 2 here and they scan to the micron level. The key would be taking the point cloud that these produce and somehow making a machining center understand this by converting to some sort of surface recognized by the CNC machine...
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Things are getting there very quickly. Ten years ago we could get CT scans of irregular (i.e. real) parts and piece them together into solid models for further work, physics simulations in our case, but it sometimes took many hundreds of nerd-hours to process each one.
Nowadays we can do it in minutes (OK maybe a nerd-hour). I've led projects using that tech to eventually make $10M disappear in less than 1/1000th of a second. Super cool to wrap the whole world around and actually use our supercomputers to deal with reality rather than idealized models.