Chop top glass (Page 3/3)
KissMySSFiero DEC 06, 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by Xtinct88:

Hey guys does anyone have any info regarding chop top door glass? Every company I speak to says either you can’t cut tempered glass, or they don’t have the tooling, etc. Any suggestions?



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Valkrie9 DEC 08, 05:40 AM

' Do you have any hard data ? '
~ Charleton Heston as Spencer Trilby in ' True Lies '
Reverse Engineering Surface Geometry - Fiero Panels, Glass.

Geometric normals of a compound surface defined mathematically.
Consider how a router would cut a windshield profile if it could, the base of the machine resting on the surface, the cutter square to the top of the windshield.
Like that, but with a large waterjet, 5+-axis to move the machine through the data points in a 3D curve.
Somewhere out there, are the proprietary computer files used to make the molds and dies to design and build the Fiero, way back in the '70 - 80s, ancient, but still valid, data files.
A treasure trove of data, describing the Fiero as a mathematical construct.
A ' Mission Impossible ' scene, a ninja scaling the building to hack the archives, or perhaps the city dump outside Detroit, the hard drives resting there since 1989, so sad.
Ancient Data.
' We have the technology '