Time for another video. This time on one of the first jobs that needed doing once the project car had been stripped down… to 3D scan what remained.
A scan is an essential part of an EV conversion these days. It allows you to accurately measure all the odd angles and protrusions of the project without having to completely disassemble what remained. It also gives me a playground to test ideas and components inside a CAD package without having to revert to Cardboard Aided Design or to borrow/buy real components to try them out in place. So its a real time saver for space planning and I’d argue essential for my build where millimeters are going to make a difference.
All of that is explored, demonstrated and explained in this latest video…
As ever, this video took way longer than it should have done. I get too easily into the weeds with new animations (did I really need to animate Vincent at 13:11 to show working from the office, home and on a trip!… but I did enjoy doing it 🙂 ).
I also found a few new tools to help with my workflow in Final Cut Pro.
- Creators Best Friend for Final Cut Pro is simple but saves loads of time extracting Chapter markers to dump into YouTube as chapter start times.
- Screen Studio completely changed the way I did screen recordings. It easily allows me to grab a screen, set the right resolution and then edit the recording to trim out the inevitable bits where there’s just too much dead space or you hit the wrong menu item. It also does all the mouse control stuff and auto-zooming into wherever to click. Highly Recommended (Mac only… I think).
The next video it probably going to be about how I programmatically took the scan from this video and created a tubular chassis to work in CAD with.
Here’s the FCP timeline…
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