To do this, [Ding Dong Drift] scans the car’s back end and uses it as a reference for further CAD work. The 3D scan is essentially a big point cloud and the resulting model has a very high ...

Then a shop could send out the CAD model to service shops that have 3D printers, and pay them to print the occasional part. There's a lot more to come as shops where the public and print 3D models ...