I was recently watching a Tesla review on Youtube and the person reviewing it said that the door handles are designed to be as flush as possible. However, I’ve seen many examples of metal and other materials being laser cut where they sit so flush you can’t even see the cut. Why, as a design element or even from a practical standpoint, is this not utilized on things like vehicles more often?
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An example of when laser cutting has been used for car body panels:
The Rover 400 estate car was built from the standard saloon car side-body panels that were laser cut to remove unwanted rear areas and had new panel material then welded on.
It was calculated to be cheaper to do this than to create an entire estate car body side
Laser cutting provided the necessary accuracy.
This processing was done out of house by a specialist company.
translations
* Estate car = Station wagon
* saloon car = sedan
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