Interesting post, Mike.
I was wondering the same thing. A Technical College nearby had an open house a few years ago and showed off a brand new CNC Machine they had, along with a Lasar Scanner. The scanner could only handle objects about shoe box sized, but very detailed and the data was fed directly to a milling machine that cut a perfect clone of the original object scanned.
Using the scan data for a plastic sand mold of engine block size is brilliant!
David
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