CAD, exhibits and fabrication
Sometimes the exhibit that resonates with a jury is a thing they can pick up. We reverse-model from drawings, from photographs, or from a physical sample, and we fabricate — 3D-printed, CNC-machined, at real scale or reduced.
Illustrative image — actual case work is confidential.Fabrication methods
- FDM 3D printing — fast, cheap, larger parts, good for iterative prototypes and rough exemplars
- SLA (resin) 3D printing — fine detail, smooth surfaces, courtroom-quality finish
- CNC machining via partner shops — metal exemplars where fidelity to the real part matters
- SolidWorks reverse-modeling — from PDF drawings, scaled against callout dimensions, with unspecified dimensions reconstructed from photographic measurement
When a physical exhibit is the right tool
- The dispute is about how a part failed and the actual failed part is either unavailable, degraded, or subject to a limited-handling order
- The jury needs to hold the thing to understand its size and geometry — a photograph or animation won’t do it
- The opposing expert has already produced their own exemplar and yours is speaking to the same object
Every exemplar we fabricate can be inspected by your expert and, within material and fabrication constraints, tested for capability. We document the reconstruction pipeline so opposing counsel can review the provenance of every dimension.
CT / MRI volume data visualization for medical matters
For medical-malpractice and personal-injury cases where CT or MRI imagery is the record, we build 3D reconstructions that the treating physician or plaintiff’s expert can annotate for the jury. We can also 3D-print solid models — potentially in color — directly from those scans.
Firearms and ballistics visualization
Our team wrote and delivered a virtual bullet and toolmark comparison software package for a national forensics laboratory under NIJ funding. That same visualization stack drives:
- 3D visualization of gunshot trajectories
- Bullet-to-target reconstruction
- Comparison of toolmarks between exemplars and evidence
- Ballistic-trajectory visualization inside 3D scenes we’ve captured
Diorama and physical-model fabrication
- Full-scene physical dioramas from LIDAR or photogrammetry data, at whatever scale the exhibit call asks for
- Machined metal exemplars via CNC partners where a resin print won’t hold up
- Component-level replicas where you need to demonstrate how a subassembly moved, deformed or failed