Roof racks help anyone who needs to transport vacation or work gear, or carry recreational equipment while preserving interior space for occupants or additional cargo. Designed to support a large amount of weight with a minimal number of contact points, they must be engineered to minimize wind noise, reduce drag, and withstand high speeds, sudden […]
3D laser scanning accelerates production of PPE masks for health care workers
3D printing is not the only technology used to help fill the shortfall of personal protection equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers. 3D scanning is playing a roll too. Two recent PPE-related projects completed by NVision, Inc., for example, demonstrate how non-contact scanning/measurement technologies are taking in the race to create new products and designs to […]
3D scanning helps reengineer the Dodge Viper
GSpeed (Cresson, Texas) contracted with NVision, Inc. to 3D-scan the chassis of a Dodge Viper as a key step in GSpeed’s goal of building what is expected to…
CFD Saves Time in Reverse Engineering a Steam Turbine
NVision’s Contract Service Div. recently reverse engineered the complete core of a steam turbine for a major OEM in six weeks compared to the six months budgeted for the project. “Measuring the critical blade geometry accurately made it possible for the turbine manufacturer to perform simulations that helped to redesign the blades and diaphragms to…