Mercedes-Benz will provide medical organizations with access to industrial 3D printers and help with printing the necessary components of equipment needed to treat patients with COVID-19 coronavirus infection.

The concern will render comprehensive assistance to the companies that asked for help and promises to allocate all of its capacities for new tasks.

“With our competencies and experience, we are ready to help with the production of medical equipment,” says Jörg Bürzer, member of the Board of Directors of Mercedes-Benz AG, “We are already discussing various options with the authorities of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and are waiting for requests from companies engaged in the medical and technological sector. ”

Each year, Mercedes-Benz produces 150,000 3D-printed parts from plastic and metal, and the concern is ready to release all this power for the production of medical equipment.

Previously, McLaren offered its assistance in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The British manufacturer of supercars will be engaged in the development of the design of mechanical ventilation devices, and will also try to simplify their design, which will increase production volumes several times.

Airbus also announced that it is ready to provide its assembly plants and 3D printers for the production of ventilation devices. Nissan, Bosch and other companies joined the initiative.

In addition, the owner of Ferrari and FCA Exor Holding announced the allocation of 10 million euros to fighting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the purchase of 150 ventilation devices for medical institutions in Italy. And the Leasys car rental company, owned by FCA Bank, provided the Italian branch of the Red Cross and the nonprofit Italian volunteer association ANPAS with free access to their own car park and five bio-insulated ambulances based on the Ducato van.

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Rhythm & Hues, who filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, is easily one of the leading visual effects studios in the world. Its latest venture, the extra-ordinarily filmed LIFE OF PI, won several awards this year including the coveted Best Director Oscar for Ang Lee. This visually-stunning adventure 3D drama created a new benchmark in the film-world because of its special-effects, which was highly praised by critics from all quarters and was appreciated by audience globally. Besides that, it picked up all the technical and visual-effects awards all over the world including Best Visual Effects award at the Oscars.

But the R&H studio that made all this possible, took help from a lesser known 3D scanning service bureau called LeaderTek from Taiwan, which enabled them to take advantage of 3D capture to bring out the amazing and beautiful effects on screen.

Ang Lee, who previously won the directing Oscar for his coming-of-age film BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN back in 2005, bagged the coveted prize once again this year for his visionary thinking and imagination behind this tale of massive proportions. The director hired R&H studios to come on-board in his mission to do something which is “next-to-impossible”. The studio having offices across many countries including Taiwan, Canada, India, Malaysia and the U.S took the technical responsibility of producing several visual effects shots that needed to be presented in 3D stereo.

The movie garnered rave reviews because of its large-than-life portrayal of Richard Parker, the Bengal Tiger, who many believed to be as good and as real as a “living-and-breathing” version of it in the real world. Apart from that, the water and skies which got digitally recreated were just stunning along with the floating raft, Meerkat Island and other additional creatures that made one to believe in a world which is something that is beyond the control of the humans.

LeaderTek used the laser scanner FARO Focus 3D to capture digitally the raft and the lifeboat. They chose the software of  reverse engineering, Rapidform XOR, which was used to merge and optimize the data affiliated with point cloud scan and bring them together into an STL file. The software has the ability to combinine 3D scanning data process with CAD. Thus, it helps in creating feature based along with solid editable models with the environment of CAD.

LeaderTek’s Sales Engineer, Mr.Edward Yao was in full praise when describing the features of the Rapidform XOR. He hailed it to be the best and easily the most effective among its competitors, as it is capable of working with raw data in massive quantity along with Faro Focus 3D scanner, which easily makes him and the team very much satisfied and happy with the final outcome along with all the cine-goers around the world.

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Have you, at any point of time, faced an inclination toward the 3D scanning service? If the answer is yes, you should opt for EMS Steinbichler Comet L3D 3D Scanner. The dimensions of this scanning device are really small, but it very efficiently delivers the work assigned. The portability of this device coupled with its efficiency has formed enough reasons for the demand of this device in the markets. Indeed, the scanning of high resolutions can be done with this device using the targets or the mounting arm, photogammetry or rotary table. For scanning the objects that have large dimensions, the target having digital codes is preferred.

There megapixel models offered by the EMS 3D scanning service include 1, 2, or 5. The scanner is provided with interchangeable lenses. The accuracy achieved in the scans is up to 20 microns.

The usage of the L3D does not involve complicated processes. Blue LED is the technology that the scanner puts to use as that ensures capturing even the dark as well as the shiny places. The scanner can be previewed before it is set up and this procedure can be carried on when the objects fit well in the field. In case when the method doesn’t work, the targets are to be used so that the objects has the complete surface area captured.

The 3D scanning service by EMS is done through triangulation. According to the method, enough light is thrown on the area of surface and the camera takes the information immediately. This depends on one factor and that is distortion of light. When rotary table is used, scans are taken from various angles. This makes sure that full object is scanned. For capturing other side of the same object,the arm should be moved. The point to be kept in mind is that for a complete scan of the same object, the process should be thorough.

Reverse engineering, along with inspection, counts among the prime uses of this scanning device. 3D CAD data can be made from these scans. With this the onbject can be more closely looked at which helps you in taking the measurements with a greater precision.

When the task of scanning is over, they are required to be offered an alignment. For this the merging of these scans into a single file is done. On the basis of the markers they are lined up, which, again, is done in the software. When the scanning is done, scans are arranged in order according to a format that is desired.

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