Automotive & Motorsport
MotoGP Carbon Fibre Seat
A hand-laid carbon race seat captured the same day so a racing program could mould replicas and spares.
- Client
- Private client
- Timeline
- Same day
- Deliverables
- Watertight scan mesh, STL + STEP files
The problem
The customer needed replacement and backup parts for an organically shaped carbon fibre race seat with no existing moulds or drawings.
Constraints
A one-off, hand-laid compound surface that had to be captured exactly as laid, on a same-day turnaround.
Development approach
Scanned the seat at 0.2mm and cleaned the capture into a watertight mesh, ready for the customer's CAD and mould design.
Hand-laid carbon parts are one-offs by nature — there’s no mould on a shelf and no drawing to fall back on. To make backups, you first have to capture the original.
We scanned the seat at 0.2mm, picking up its compound curves and organic surface exactly as laid, and cleaned the capture into a watertight mesh ready for CAD.
The scan was turned around the same day. From there the customer modelled a new mould and started producing replicas and spares for their racing program.
The outcome
From the scan the customer modelled a new mould and produced replicas and backup parts for their racing program.
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