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Kit car vents: scanned and modeled to fit

3D SCANNING + PART DESIGN · PERSONAL

I 3D-scanned my kit car’s body panels, then designed vents to fit them and split them into print-ready plates.

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FINAL PART FILES
ZONE / LAYER
SHOP · FABRICATION
BUILT WITH
Revopoint scans, PLA + ASA print files
FIG. 7 — SCAN VS. PART
  • Scan: side pod, 0.37 mm point pitch
  • Part: honeycomb side-pod vent

Illustration, not the mesh.

PHOTOS · INSTALLED PARTS

PHOTO TO COME · SIDE POD VENT
PHOTO TO COME · HOOD VENT FINS
PHOTO TO COME · TRUNK VENT
FIG. 7A — ALSO IN THE SHOP: 58 MM DOSING FUNNEL, RIM EXTENDED ALONG ITS WALL SLOPE

PROBLEM

The body panels on my own car needed custom-fit vent and trim parts, where off-the-shelf parts don’t exist or don’t fit.

BUILD

I scanned the hood, engine vent, trunk vent, under-hood area and side pod with a Revopoint MetroY Pro structured-light scanner, then modeled parts against the scans: hood vent fins, an engine vent pod, honeycomb trunk and side-pod vents, and under-hood louvers. Large parts were split across print plates for a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, in PLA and ASA.

STATUS

Final part files as of June 2026. Photos of the installed parts are coming.

STACK

  • Revopoint MetroY Pro
  • Bambu Studio
  • Bambu Lab X1 Carbon
  • PLA + ASA
  • STL / 3MF / PLY / OBJ

KEYNOTES · BUILD NOTES

  1. The hood scan is 3.22 million vertices and 6.41 million faces. The side pod was captured at 0.37 mm point pitch.
  2. 13 honeycomb variants of the side-pod vent in one day, April 18, 2026.
  3. A bad cut on the under-hood part was backed up, rebuilt as left and right center-cut plates and re-exported.
  4. Print files use ASA profiles, which hold up to heat and UV better than PLA.
  5. Also in the shop: a mesh edit that extends the rim of an existing 58 mm coffee dosing funnel. Not yet printed.

MICHAEL MORALE · DETAIL 1 — KIT CAR VENTS

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