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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Think about cost vs use. Laser cutting is for precision cutting and is a relatively slow process for the example you provided. This would make the cost to tesla increase drastically. Whereas a punching die /press is very fast. literally feed the metal sheet in, press the button, press rams down on sheet, once the ram retracts pop the sheet out and it is in the shape you want (maybe send it through a second or third die if the geometry is too complicated or tight for a single press). So as with all machining processes it is a balance between time and cost against quality.
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