Why Ferrari? Ferrari. What's the first thing that pops into your head when you hear that word? Ferrari as a brand is among the most recognized in the world. Everyone has heard of Ferrari, right? My first encounter with the Ferrari brand goes back to college. The owner of the apartment building I lived in when I attended the University of Miami had a Dino of some sort. I don't know exactly what model. I recall a sloped nose and shark like gills in the hood. It sounded way cooler than the noise that came out of my '71 Opel Manta. He also had a Donzi or maybe two. It seemed like he used the apartment building to house his numerous beautiful women "friends". Fast forward forty years and now I'm buying a Ferrari. At first, I didn't really know I wanted a Ferrari. I wanted a really nice, prestigious, fast, exciting car that I'd keep until they pried the keys out of my cold, dead hands. I really like the Mercedes cars, have two, and thought a good choic
My 360 Spider had scrape pads under the front bumper when I purchased the car. They appeared to be pretty standard, made of HDPE or some other soft plastic, and had suffered some abuse over the years. I wanted to replace them but I didn't want to just buy new ones. Instead, I chose to manufacture my own using Fusion 360 and a Prusa MK3S+. Digitizing an existing part can be tricky, even with a 3D scanner. If the item is relatively flat, a simple method of digitizing uses finely lined (1/10") graph paper and a camera. Line the object up on the graph paper so it starts at an even measurement, and the take a picture directly from above, at a fair distance away from the object to reduce spherical aberration. In this case, the old scrape pad fit easily on one sheet, Fusion 360 has a very nice feature for importing images to use in their system. Once imported, a simple scaling operation gives the height and width. Tracing the outline and holes is quite easily The original scrape pad,