THE RIVAGE - High-tech model-making - From zero to the road in just seven months

Measuring Systems: ATOS, TRITOP

Keywords: Design, scale models, clay

GOM, ITH, Steinbeis-Transferzentrum, Tebis

December 2002

How a development record was set. From sketch to presentation of a new sports car in just 7 months.

The head of model-maker ITH and Professor Kelly of Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Automotive Styling and Design had a brilliant idea in the spring of 2002: They were certain that the design study of a sports car could be turned into a real-life vehicle that would drive like any other car without anyone noticing that it was a prototype. And it could all be done in only 6 or 7 months.
The reason for their certainly was that they either possessed all the necessary skills, methods and hightech components themselves or knew partners who could supply them: GOM and Tebis. Both companies were soon on board. All four firms became project partners, assuring one another that each would contribute the best they had to offer to turn the vision into reality, with the goal of presenting the prototype at Euromold 2002.