So are you doing the Reno work/design work as well? or just the scanning portion?
And it's not just the auto industry that gets the contractors to finance the operation, construction is like that as well, put up a mill with of steel, get paid in progress payments, don't get fully paid for a year after your part of the job is done, GC's do that with all of the subtrades, so no one actually fully pays for the building until well after it complete.
Kind of a scam how that works
I am not sure if this will go further than acquiring the data. He is the woodworker and wants to be able to fit the components in nice and tight. Currently he uses a digitizer to do the work, but would like to get away from the design side. We were all standing at the back of the building when he told his regular employee "I don't know the software anymore", (design software) and we need to figure out what platform we are going to use. This kind of sounds like there is a lot more work besides scanning.
I agree, doing this can make a payment situation worse, a lot of times completing the job can be the best hope for payment
So what scanner do you use to 3d scan the inside ? I know this technology exists, but I am not really aware of it, if that makes sense
I dropped in there last fall to re-acquaint myself after over 15 years. At that time I was doing some work for an engineering firm in Windsor doing a part design. This meeting was just a few weeks after I handed the prototype over to this other guy. I have not heard from that person since. My friend asked me if I had given data over? I said no, He responded that was a good thing. I take it he knows how easy it would be to rip off someone else doing sub work.
Scanner used is below. This one is for large field of view things and accuracy of about 0.25 mm. Accuracy required is plus or minus 1/16.
Withholding output doesn't prevent losses - they can still walk away. But at 2k per job, at least you can limit your losses. Be nice to change that to 20k per job though....
I resemble that remark!
Big or small - at the end of the day it's the integrity of your customer and your relationship with him that matters most.
I used to do a lot of termite work. Now I prefer Aluminiumm. Also, 2K is a trust building exercise. I have ROI to take care of. The software for processing the scans just cost a yearly maintenance to do this job, and it is a very resource hungry software. It needs a ton of RAM, which my 2014 computer won't support. (last night it scrolled out to 475 GB while processing)(of 192GB). This requires way more cores and at least 512GB RAM. (a server)
Amherstburg Ontario. A short drive from Windsor and Detroit. Even shorter when the new bridge is finished.
The marina is just 7 minutes north of my home.