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Laser scanning as an Insurance Policy

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Classic vehicles are typically hand made and therefore have the individuality of build owners love and appreciate.
However, what happens if your car is damaged in an accident or by fire? How will you get it repaired as close to original as possible?
3D Engineers have the solution. Scan your vehicle so its surface topography is preserved should the worst happen. An added benefit is creating the new body, having created a buck using the stored scan data, is far cheaper than working completely from pictures.

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As an ex-builder of Vintage Bentleys making Wings, Bonnets, panel beating etc, this is something I have been looking into for some time. I recently scanned the ash frame of a Bentley Blower replica and have scanned a Bugati Type 35 in the past.

There is a market for this type of scanning as the cars are of high value.
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Yep - one company is already doing such work with Hexagon kit - I didn't know cars were worth so much! And the number of forgeries are rife apparently... :o
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Vintage Bentleys are a couple of hundred thousand depending on the car, some are millions.

There were 4 teams cars origionally in 1924 and now there are about 300 or more replicas.

I could tell all sorts of stories about bags of money and bags of guns and some of the people that own these cars :o .. but I better not ;)
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Hi,
Would a laser scanner be accurate enough for this type of work? I would have thought a 'white light' scanner like a Breuckmann would be more suitable, offering sub mm accuracy?

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Terrestrial scanners are not good enough to scan these type of cars accurately. Anything that offers millimetre of better accuracy would be good.
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unless its an armoured car :D
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I did a whole load of tanks a while back. Great fun
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Jason Warren wrote:Hi,
Would a laser scanner be accurate enough for this type of work? I would have thought a 'white light' scanner like a Breuckmann would be more suitable, offering sub mm accuracy?
Of course!

Short range laser scanner such as the one that is shown on their "Reverse Engineering" page, one of ours by the way, easily reach the sub mm accuracy and resolution.
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Top Gear for scan monkeys.... very cool work lads.
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