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3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock

Posted by michael on from the no-chisel-required dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With all this design your own parts and electronics talk lately here on /., what about creating your own stone sculpture on a PC or Copying a Stone Sculpture? You can do that with an outfit called Studio Roc in CA. The New York Times has an interesting article on this marriage of CAD, laser scanning, and rocks. 'Using a huge Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine equipped with a scanner and 30 interchangeable diamond-tipped bits and blades, the Mill5 can record nearly any object in minutes and carve a duplicate in any stone in a few hours.'"

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  1. Re:Because someone had to say it by yow2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's funny the parent wasn't rated "funny"...
    it's more like: hey, nicely done.

    Close, but not sig

  2. Ugh by Bob+McCown · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    News sites that make you log in make baby Jesus cry...