Jamie Goldstein from Newton, Massachusetts, was 15 years old and an aspiring car designer when he sculpted an elaborate car design in clay. Having the foresight to create a design portfolio of his work, he wanted to make a more durable model of the clay car, painted and detailed. Modeling clay was not the permanent answer.

Goldstein researched various methods of 3-D replication on the internet. At first he thought about having his car machined out of aluminum, but that method soon got too expensive for his budget. He also discovered the technology called 3-D scanning from GKS Global Services that could give him the 3-D CAD data he needed to have his design fabricated.

The GKS account manager confirmed that 3-D laser scanning was the ideal solution for obtaining digital data of a malleable object such as a clay model because it is a noncontact measurement method. No destruction of the clay model or distortion in dimensions would occur because nothing touches the soft clay surface. 

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