BMW F900XR & BMW R1250RS 3D Scanning for Raised Nav Mount at The Sycamore Motorrad Peterborough

Hey folks, welcome back to our channel! Today, we’re hanging out at Sycamore Motorrad in Peterborough and we’ve got some cool stuff to show you.

🏍 What Are We Up To?
First up, we’ve 3D scanned a BMW F900XR to make a raised nav mount that actually works and looks good.

Next, for the BMW R1250RS, we’re working on a new version of our popular raised nav mount. Plus, we’re cooking up some custom light mounts just for this bike.

🛠 Why 3D Scanning?
It’s the best way to make sure everything fits like a glove. No more messing around with generic mounts. Big shoutout to Scan Model Make for their top-notch 3D scanning services! More info here: https://scan-model-make.co.uk/

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Good morning Phil from motomate and uh here we are in Sun Peterboro so local for me um see we’ve got gazebo set up you can probably hear a Jenny firing away in the background but we’re here because we’re here with Dell from scam model make and he’s coming here to scan

Some bikes for us because we’re looking at do some new parts so today we’re going to be playing scanning sorry not playing with the f900 range but the parts that we’re looking at are going to be common across the f900 range so this is the XR variant and we also have the

R1250r RS now lots of my customers will know that we already have nav mounts for the RS increasing costs and just managing the production of those is proving more expensive and more challenging so we’re looking at a way to do a mkk i version to try and simplify

It take some cost out um and we’re also looking at some dedicated light mounts which would be quite exciting I think because there is nothing dedicated for the 1250 RS so uh come and watch us scan some bikes and uh see how we get on

All right so here we go this is the scanning so we’re scanning the front of the bike we’ve prepared it with some spray that dos the gloss surfaces unfortunately the scanners don’t like gloss surfaces so much they tend to bounce the light around and it’s literally as simple as

This and we keep an eye on the screen the laptop just to make sure we’re getting what we need so the scanner works online of sight it can’t see behind things or through things just like your eyes it can only see what’s on the surface the game we play when we’re

Scanning is to try and keep the screen in a greeny kind of hue if I bring the scanner in too close then it loses its tracking and then throws a bit of a wobbly and goes red it’s not going to do it now likewise if I go too far away again

It loses itself it loses its focus so there’s a sweet spot for the scanning it’s somewhere around about 500 mil away from the subject the beauty of this is we don’t need to get everything in one go we can merge the various scans that we take together postprocessing so I’ve just moved the

Handballs out the way to give me a better line of sight on the inside [Applause] here okay and now we’re going and do the other SES so on this particular scan we’re doing it with the screen up and then the next batch of scans will be with a screen

Down and that way when we design the nav the nav Mount we can make sure that there’s no clashes when the screen being moved so here we go this is the second batch of scans now on the f900 and it seems like we’re scanning the exact same thing again

Except this time we’re scanning it with the screen down and there’s a good reason for that it’s so that when we design the satnav we’ve got the information that will allow us to make sure that the nav Mount doesn’t Clash when the screen’s being put through its different positions now on

This bike it’s quite simple the screen’s either up or down so really we only have two positions to consider that’s what you see on the screen whilst you’re scanning and it actually looks like a complete mess but once the screen the the scanning has been captured we can then align the different

Scans together to give us the the parts of the bike that we want just working now making sure we try and capture as much as we can from all the different angles there’s always an element of paranoia whilst you’re doing this have I missed something is there something that

Critical that I haven’t managed to get in the scan that I might need later hasn’t happened yet but that paranoid engineering me coming out we’ve captured the scans from having the screen down and now we’re going to do the bit where we align the scans together I pick points between

Them and use those to identify how the software needs to bring the the scans together for this it’s easy to use obvious things like screw heads or letters or just points within the scan that are easy to identify and there you go it brings both scans in together

Another round will Spot the Difference so we’ve taken the screen off and we’ve got the screen mechanism raised again it just gives us useful references for Designing the satav mount and making sure we avoid things but the other thing we’ve done here is we’ve put the screws

Into the holes and the reason for that is that they stand up like uh golf posts golf flag post and we get a very accurate reference for the positions of the screws and more importantly the hole centers so if for any reason we need to know where they are when we do the

Analysis of the scan data we know precisely the location of those screw rolls relative to everything else on the bike so hypothetically if we wanted to design a new screen for this for this particular model we now know where the screw centers are very accurately and we can design the screen

To pick up off those ho centers another example of the uh amazing amount of information you can gather with a 3D scanner here we are we’ve got the uh the spider out which is our component scanner and we’re using it because is of its ability to take improved detail of specific

Components so we’re here scanning the mechanism for the um for the screen that’s on the bike and with the detail that this will provide us we can actually incorporate our saav mount in and around this feature this this component both bikes all scanned up next St design but uh all back together

Thanks a lot to Sycamore motorad Peter bur for Lending us the bikes and giving us a space to work and um yeah keeping eye on the website and hope there’ll be some shiny new parts available very soon yeah really pleased with our the scanning is gone looking forward to

Getting the uh the parts um processed and over into the cad and then we can do the exciting bit which is designing the new satinav mounts which hopefully we’ll be um bringing to you very soon