Re: [photo-3d]Solid 3D

[Herbert C Maxey <bmaxey1@xxxxxxxx>]

While we are on the subject of creating 3D from 2D, here is something you
all have most likely seen or read about. Personally, I have seen the
process - rather the results of the process.

I worked for MSL, and we were the manufacturer of all Palm PDA Products.
When we required sample plastic frames, covers and other parts for a
proto run, we downloaded the CAD data into a solid modeler which created
a solid plastic part, exact in dimensions. 

Granted, not a production process; this was for prototype parts. Think of
the possibility. You need a part for a stereo realist and you visit a web
site where you select the part and rather than print on paper, your
desktop solid modeler recreates the part for you.

I always thought this was astounding technology with far reaching
implications.

Bob